Showing posts with label Alabama prison overcrowding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama prison overcrowding. Show all posts

Saturday, May 4, 2024

Alabama can’t build its way out of the prison crisis

  There’s a concept in transportation called induced demand.

  Say you have a four-lane highway running through a city. It’s jammed with vehicles.

  So officials widen the road to six lanes, to ease congestion and driver stress.

  Does that relieve traffic?

  Yes. But only for a time.

  Within a few days or weeks, the roads will be crowded again.