John Pfaff was quoted in an In These Times article about mass incarceration and criminal justice reform.
“Prison guard unions often have a strong incentive to push back against reforms, because so much of what we spend on incarceration goes to correctional officers,” says John Pfaff, a Fordham Law School professor and author of Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform. This is why these unions have such a strong incentive keep correctional spending high, says Pfaff.
“In theory, the unions would likely be fine with prison population cuts as long as they didn’t require prison closures and layoffs,” he says.
