the first two paragraphs (from PRINT, which is slightly different from the online version):
"With overall violent crime rates falling nationally and fewer people getting sentenced to long stretches behind bars, private prison companies see a potentially catastrophic decline in demand for their services. Their response: diversify into everything from halfway houses to neighborhood check-in centers for drug offenders.
"Over the past three decades, entrepreneurs and investors piled into the private prison industry, convinced that the thorny job of incarcerating criminals could be a lucrative growth business. No longer. Curtailment of harsh mandatory-minimum sentences and other changes in criminal justice policies have combined to cut federal and state inmate head counts to 1.56 million as of yearend 2015. That's down from 2.4 million in 2008, a 38 percent reduction.
4, a 3 percent falloff.
My comment:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Incarceration is falling, so private prisons try new businesses
(b) The quotation above mainly differs from the online version by adding "2015 [rather than '2014, , a 3 percent falloff' for the online version]. That's down from 2.4 million in 2008, a 38 percent reduction.."
(c) There is no need to read the rest.
(2) Aaron Rutkoff, It Came from China! Why you ought to make time for a 1,500-page sci-fi trilogy. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... avorite-sci-fi-epic
("China's most popular science fiction series, The Three-Body 三体 Trilogy, * * * author Cixin Liu" 刘慈欣)
Excerpt in the window of print: An alien invasion, 400 years in the making