How serious are we about crime? Not serious at all, considering how comically (and tragically) we get things wrong. The United States, with its vaunted tough-on-crime policies, boasts the world’s highest rate of incarceration, and the numbers keep rising. Nearly two-thirds of prisoners released at the end of their terms are rearrested within three years. As Einstein is famously credited with saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”

In January the Trump administration joined private prison operator GEO Group in suing California over plans to get rid of private prisons. Assembly Bill 32, which took effect Jan. 1, prohibits new private prison facilities in the state and requires existing facilities to be phased out by 2028.

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