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Location and Sizing of Prisons and Inmate Allocation

In: Applications of Location Analysis

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  • Vladimir Marianov

    (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

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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.

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  • Vladimir Marianov, 2015. "Location and Sizing of Prisons and Inmate Allocation," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: H. A. Eiselt & Vladimir Marianov (ed.), Applications of Location Analysis, edition 1, chapter 15, pages 349-368, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-20282-2_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20282-2_15
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