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California’s prison gang problem: the role of prison size
Thursday, 24 November, 2016

Gang rule or ‘extra-legal governance’ in US prisons is linked to ever larger facilities. One way to make prisons safer and reduce the influence of gangs is therefore to make prisons smaller. This blog is by David Skarbek, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at King's College London. This is part of PRI's expert guest blog series. Read a text version of this blog at www.penalreform.org