In a recent post, I endorsed economist Bryan Caplan’s “weight class” plan for reducing prison rape by separating prisoners by size and weight. It turns out that Columbia law student Philip Ellenbogen developed the same idea in a 2009 article for the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems (see esp. pp. 363-68). As he […]
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A Creative Proposal for Reducing Prison Rape
Back in 2007, I wrote a post explaining why the massive problem of prison rape is the sort of issue that government is likely to handle poorly because of structural flaws: [T]he government’s failure to address the problem is not accidental. Government is responsive to those who have political power, and prisoners are the classic […]