______ have unlimited discretion to incarcerate and to act in concert with punitive local public opinion because they do not have to attend to the ultimate cost of offenders’ stay in prisons. Local counties do not pay for state prisons; they are paid for by individuals’ federal tax dollars.

a. Local Congressmen and Congresswomen
b. State Senators
c. Prosecutors and judges
d. All of these


Ans: C

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