What Private Prisons Companies Have Done to Diversify in the Face of Sentencing Reform

Last month, Hillary Clinton added her name to the long list of politicians calling for a reduction in the number of Americans in prisons. “Keeping [prisoners] behind bars does little to reduce crime,” she said in a speech at Columbia University on April 29.

Her comments followed bipartisan legislative proposals to reform sentencing guidelines as conservative pundits lamented the “overcriminalization of American life.” Earlier this month, Rick Santorum told Bloomberg that his era had responded to crime with policies that hollowed out urban communities. “We have to take a step back and see if there’s a better approach with a lot of these nonviolent drug crimes,” he said.