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Privatized Prisons: A Human Marketplace
Submitted by Bradley Keyes on Fri, 2013-01-18 01:00
"Under the fee system local sheriffs charged inmates for their stay in jail. A 1902 report by the Correctional Association of New York harshly criticized this system, warning that judges might be inclined to “sentence a man to jail where he may be a source of revenue to a friendly sheriff.” Whenever the fee system was abolished in a New York county, the inmate population dropped — by as much as half."
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