Abstract
We present a case of location and sizing of a number of new jails, capacity increasing of existing jails, and inmate allocation to them, in Chile. The main criteria are the cost and the distances between the jails and courts, as well as the maximum distance that relative and other visitors have to travel to visit the inmates. The capacities of the jails range from a few inmates to 2,000 people, composed by pre-trial detainees, defendants under trial and convicted offenders. Different categories of inmates stay in the system for very different times, going from a few days to life sentences. Some percentage of overcrowding is permitted, and penalized.
The procedure utilizes an exact mathematical programming formulation for the whole country. Different scenarios of jail population growth are developed and used separately to assess the required capacities and locations. A minimum regret analysis is applied finally, to find an adequate solution no matter what is the actual scenario.
“People shouldn’t live better in jail than they do on the outside. Here in my jails, they don’t.”
—Joe Arpaio, Sheriff, Maricopa County, AZ.
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Or papa’s house (Comfort 2006).
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In reference with forced labor and other therapies, Joe Arpaio declares: “I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won’t even think about doing something that could bring them back.” Inmates in his prisons do work.
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With the exception of the (in-) famous Tent City (for different points of view on it, access http://www.mcso.org/MultiMedia/PressRelease/Tents%20Birthday.pdf and http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/10-worst-prisons-america-joe-arpaio-tent-city), established by the Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose quotes decorate this chapter. (http://thinkexist.com/quotes/joe_arpaio/).
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Since then, criminal justice went through a deep reform, and the trials are much shorter.
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Partial support by FONDECYT grant 130265, as well as by the Institute Complex Engineering Systems through Grants ICM MIDEPLAN P-05-004-F and CONICYT FBO16 is gratefully acknowledged.
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Marianov, V. (2015). Location and Sizing of Prisons and Inmate Allocation. In: Eiselt, H., Marianov, V. (eds) Applications of Location Analysis. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 232. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20282-2_15
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