Prisons and the Profit Motive

March 3, 2009

Clarence Page at the Chicago Tribune has a good op-ed about the two Pennsylvania judges who pleaded guilty to sentencing thousands of children to jail in exchange for $2.6 million in kick-backs from for-profit prisons.

Prisons plus the profit motive do not make for good public policy.

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