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Replication Data for: "Inmate Litigation, Legal Access, and Prison Privatization"

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Title Replication Data for: "Inmate Litigation, Legal Access, and Prison Privatization"
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0QL4Y7
 
Creator Gunderson, Anna
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The below data and code replicates the main and supplementary analyses for the paper, "Inmate Litigation, Legal Access, and Prison Privatization."

Debates over prison privatization neglect to consider differences in legal access across private and public prisons. I argue private prisons experience lower filing rates than public prisons and that cases brought against publicly traded private prison companies are less likely to be dismissed and more likely to succeed than similar cases against public prisons. I find evidence consistent with these claims, a result that is not driven by other explanations of judicial decision-making. This paper has implications for skepticism of private interests in public policymaking, and encourages investigation of access to justice for inmates in public and private custody.
 
Subject Law
Social Sciences
 
Contributor Gunderson, Anna