For-Profit Prisons, Ctd

by Patrick Appel

Will Wilkinson the discussion:

The great hazards of contracting out incarceration "services" is that private firms may well turn out to be even more efficient and effective than unions in lobbying for policies that would increase prison populations.

When we add to the mix the observations that America already puts a larger proportion of its population behind barsthan does any other country (often for acts that ought to be legal),and that the US already spends an...