The surprise is the state’s prison system, which has more than doubled its personnel over the past two decades, growing four times faster than the rest of state government to become its second-largest employer, with 17% of the total workforce. Without this increase in the prison-industrial complex, state employment would actually have lagged population growth. And yet Ms Whitman, who has been endorsed by the police union, has promised to support all the "tough on crime" policies that have caused the booms in incarceration and prison-hiring.

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by Staff, The Economist.

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