Private sentencing reasoning skews who ends up in correctional institutions.

Evidence

Judges and prosecutors who develop private conceptions of proper considerations in charging and sentencing contribute to defendants’ welfare as best they can, but they also skew the population of the correctional institutions in ways responsive to their private conceptions of appropriate sentencing. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1111

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s interest in how individual discretion aggregates into systematic institutional outcomes. — connects to: Serious offenders plea bargain less and still receive lengthy sentences. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1812; Court personnel base charging and sentencing on anticipated prison conditions. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1107