https://www.reuters.com/legal/governmen ... 022-07-15/
Shocking but not shocking at all.
"An obscure web of bureaucracy incentivizes local officials around the U.S. to jail more people in order to generate revenue, rather than advance public safety, according to a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice."
Those perverse incentives have created what researchers referred to as a “market in incarcerated people,” an industrial complex that transforms humans into objects of trade and advances mass incarceration.
"Fiscally distressed counties have seen this market as a solution to their budget woes, often expanding their jails to serve it," the authors wrote.