Temple University Investigating Professors Who Were Financed By Private Prisons

Questions Arise Over Professors' Connections To Private Prisons
Prison corridor with cells inside Alcatraz main building san francisco califfornia
Prison corridor with cells inside Alcatraz main building san francisco califfornia

Temple University is investigating an ethics complaint that two of its professors did not properly disclose funding from the private prison industry for their research on the cost of incarceration.

Simon Hakim and Erwin Blackstone, economists on Temple's faculty since the mid-1970s, argued that they had been doing similar research for decades and always disclosed their funding when their work was completed. They said sometimes their research favors the funder and sometimes it does not.

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