Court personnel base charging and sentencing on anticipated prison conditions.

Evidence

Judges and prosecutors, for example, often make charging and sentencing decisions based on their expectations of the consequences of subjecting defendants to the results of sentencing, although formally they are not supposed to consider the quality of correctional institutions in their deliberations. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1107

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Judicial discretion over penalties was transferred to prison administrators — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 377; Private sentencing reasoning skews who ends up in correctional institutions. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1111; The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 469

Broader Connections

• The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse. #corroborates (0.88) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 469
• Judicial discretion over penalties was transferred to prison administrators #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 377
• Private sentencing reasoning skews who ends up in correctional institutions. #corroborates (0.82) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1111