Government,
Criminal
Sep. 17, 2019
Private prisons bill unlikely to promote significant change
The novelty of AB 32 lies in that it forbids the state to contract with private entities not only for the incarceration of domestic prisoners, but also for the detention of undocumented immigrants.
Hadar Aviram
Professor
UC Hastings College of the Law
200 McAllister St
San Francisco , CA 94102-4978
Phone: (415) 581-8890
Fax: (415) 565-4685
Email: aviramh@uchastings.edu
Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem
Hadar is author of "Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole" (University of California Press, 2020).
Last week California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 32, a bill aiming to divest from the private prison industry. Hailed by newspapers as a dramatic move that might upend the private prison industry, it reflects the overall understandable perception that private profit is an unhealthy motive in incarceration. The novelty of AB 32 lies in that it forbids the state to contract with private entities not only for the incarceration of domestic prisoners, but also for the d...
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