Showing posts with label prisons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prisons. Show all posts
Monday, July 14, 2025

International trade in prison cells: Sweden and Estonia

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 The Guardian has the story: Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners by Miranda Bryant "Sw...
Friday, August 2, 2024

Barter of Russians in prison for prisoners in Russia--Redemption of Captives

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  Barter is alive and well in diplomacy, as evidenced by yesterday's multi-country multi-party prisoner swap.  Among the highlights was ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Prison gangs, in Latin America and in the U.S.

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 It's one thing to be able to capture and confine prisoners. When gangs are involved, it's quite another thing to control the prison...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Balance of violence: prison-based criminal cartels, the case of Brazil's PCC.

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The vexed relationship between banned markets and black markets is perhaps nowhere clearer than when prison based gangs of convicted drug de...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Donate blood or organs to pay a traffic fine or shorten a prison term?

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I spend a lot of my time thinking and writing about repugnant transactions and controversial markets, and some of that intersects with my wo...
Friday, September 2, 2022

The market for prison beds and prisoners

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 Kim Krawiec points me to this article about prison space for rent, from the Brennan Center at NYU: A Market for Holding Humans: The Correc...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Texas inmate asks to delay execution for kidney donation

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 For all you practical ethicists out there, here's a story by the AP that has divided my email correspondents: Texas inmate asks to dela...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Matching prisoners to jails: peer effects are of first order importance

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 Akhil Vohra points me to this very interesting matching problem, which is apparently quite far from a good solution: RIKERS ISLAND: City J...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

"Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China," by Matthew P. Robertson, and Jacob Lavee in the AJT

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  Prior to 2015, it was legal in China to transplant organs recovered from executed prisoners. When I visited China in those days to talk ab...
Monday, November 27, 2017

Enticing new graduates to become prison guards, British edition

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In the U.S., new college graduates are tempted into teaching in under-served schools through Teach for America , and in Britain through Tea...