John Pfaff‘s comments for an earlier piece in Slate were referenced in an article on incarceration reduction in Good magazine.
As Fordham Law School professor John Pfaff told Slate earlier this year, aggressive arrests and prosecutions ramped up during a 1975-1991 crime wave, and continued accelerating even as crime began to dip in 1992. Private prisons, which benefit from more prisoners being incarcerated for extended periods of time (under tough-on-crime laws), certainly benefitted from this crime prevention strategy—to the tune of $3 billion in annual revenue for two of the largest prison companies.