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Originally Posted by Lucy - CSC
Also remember prisons are privately owned and judges have shares in the prisons to custodial sentences are given more freely.
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good point: people respond to incentives. The problem is that even if no direct financial incentive is involved (like owning shares in a prison), people still have an incentive to protect their own interests: example: a DA getting a high conviction rate at the cost of locking up an innocent person every now and then,...