Abstract
Trumbell and Witte (p. 115) present an economic analysis that attempts to arrive at a specific figure for the optimal size prison in terms of the costs of prison operation and some of the other features of prisons commonly included in proposed standards for prison operation. The thrust of their findings is that the least expensive prison to operate is larger than small but smaller than gargantuan. Few people would challenge this finding, which is simply a reminder of the economies of scale and the diseconomies of excessive scale.
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