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- Streetcars and light rail services serve different rider markets in American cities.
- Southern primaries, ‘monied nihilists’ in Michigan, and Nevada scraps Obamacare exchange – US state blog round up for 17 – 23 May
- Hundreds of scholars have signed a statement defending the international institutions that Trump has attacked
- Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz
Lockup quotas in U.S. prisons are not necessarily a tax on low crime, and may actually help maximise value for money for taxpayers.
Lockup quotas in U.S. prisons are not necessarily a tax on low crime, and may actually help maximise value for money for taxpayers.
Last Thursday’s post on this blog (and research report) by In the Public Interest (ITPI) shows how U.S. private prison operators have negotiated ‘lockup quotas’ to protect their business against reductions in the prison population. It raises important questions, writes Simon Bastow, about how governments should manage such reductions and the dynamics of entrenched private-sector interests. But to say, as […]