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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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1 results foundAuthor: Dippel, Christian Title: Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing? Summary: This paper provides causal evidence of the effect of private prisons on court sentencing, using novel data on private prisons and state trial courts. Our identification strategy uses state-level changes in private-prison capacity and compares changes in sentencing only across court pairs that straddle state borders. We find that the opening of a private prison increases the length of sentences relative to what the crime's and defendant's characteristics predict. Effects are concentrated at the margin of sentence length, not of being sent to prison. The effect does not appear to be driven by 'judicial capture'; instead the evidence is most consistent with the cost savings from private prisons leading judges to pass longer sentences. Private prisons do not appear to accentuate existing racial biases in sentencing decisions. Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019. Source: Internet Resource: NBER Working Paper No. 25715: Accessed April 12, 2019 at: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25715.pdf Year: 2019 Country: United States URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25715.pdf Shelf Number: 155382 Keywords: Private Prisons Privatization Sentencing Sentencing Decisions |