# Professor Sabrina Howell is interviewed about the impact of private equity investment in public prisons

1 Faculty News April 30, 2019 ![The Nation logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/thenation192x144.jpg?itok=WWS47EM-)>

Excerpt from the [The Nation](https://www.thenation.com/article/prison-privatization-private-equity-hig/) -- "Under this arrangement, what’s good for the company and the government might not be good for consumers. These misaligned incentives played a role in distorting the for-profit education market. 'If anything,' she said, 'in prisons the potential for misaligned incentives is much more extreme.'"

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