This is the fifth post in a series about my new article, Prison Accountability and Performance Measures, which is in the current issue of the Emory Law Journal. In Monday’s post, I introduced the issue and advocated greater use of performance measures, which I’ll come back to later this week. In Tuesday’s post, I discussed why we don’t know much about the comparative cost or quality of public vs. private prisons. In Wednesday’s post, I talked about why introducing performance measures would be a good idea. In Thursday’s post, I discussed some of the normative issues involved in what measures to choose and started on some potential concerns about, and critiques of, implementing performance measures. Today, I’ll finish up that discussion and talk about what sorts of undesirable strategic behavior performance measures might engender. [read the full story here]