Here’s the claim (report is here: static1.squarespace.com/static/58e127c…)
This is incorrect, in an important way that strikes at the heart of our inability to end mass incarceration.
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It is the public sector, not the private, that drives this.
It just is.
But it is the wrong narrative, and it is a narrative that both wrongly excuses us—“it’s not us, it’s these shadowy capitalists!”—and points reforms in the wrong direction.