The Volokh Conspiracy » Prison Vouchers

Sasha Volokh has a series on the notion of Prison Vouchers. It's associated with a book he's written where he deals with the subject:

I invite the reader to indulge in a thought experiment. What would the world look like if, instead of assigning prisoners to particular prisons bureaucratically, we gave them vouchers, good for one incarceration, that they were required to redeem at a participating prison?

Prison Vouchers: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5