Online symposium on “pay-to-stay” prisons

As detailed in this post at Concurring Opinions, the Michigan Law Review’s companion journal First Impressions today has this new online symposium on “Pay-to-Stay Programs in Correctional Facilities.”  Though I do not view the “pay-to-stay” phenomenon to be the most pressing concern in the world of sentencing and corrections, the pieces in this symposium all seem worth a read.  Here are the titles:

• Pay-to-Stay in California Jails and the Value of Systemic Self-Embarassment
• It Could Happen to “You”: Pay-to-Stay Jail Upgrades
• The Dirty Little Secrets about Pay-to-Stay
• Government Entrepreneurship: How COP, Direct Supervision, and a Business Plan Helped to Solve Santa Ana’s Crime Problems
• Why the County Jail Is Often a Better Choice
• A Virtuous State Would Not Assign Correctional Housing Based on Ability to Pay