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Pay-For-Performance In Prison: Using Healthcare Economics To Improve Criminal Justice, W. David Ball
Pay-For-Performance In Prison: Using Healthcare Economics To Improve Criminal Justice, W. David Ball
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For much of the last seventy-plus years, healthcare providers in the United States have been paid under the fee-for-service system, where providers are reimbursed for procedures performed, not outcomes obtained. Providers, insurers, and consumers are motivated by different individual and organizational incentives; costs and burdens of patient care are shifted from one part of the system to another. The result has been a system that combines exploding costs without concomitant increases in quality. Healthcare economists and policymakers have reacted by proposing a number of policies designed to reign in costs without sacrificing quality. One approach is to focus on the …
“A False Idea Of Economy”: Costs, Counties, And The Origins Of The California Correctional System, W. David Ball
“A False Idea Of Economy”: Costs, Counties, And The Origins Of The California Correctional System, W. David Ball
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Realignment in California comes at a time when the state’s prison system is expensive and overcrowded; the response has been to reevaluate and reconfigure the way counties use state prisons. Based on an original historical analysis of state archival records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as a well as a review of secondary historical accounts of California’s prison system, I show that similar problems and policies were present at the state’s founding: issues of expense, overcrowding, and the county-state relationship help to explain the origins, size, and shape of the California prison system. California’s lack of money …