Critics of the industry have long contended that the companies, which operate as monopolies within jails and prisons, price-gouge their captive customers.
A rational person is hardly going to be persuaded that the faint hope of eventual release makes several decades in prison a price worth paying.
DETROIT — A Japanese auto supplier, the Yazaki Corporation, agreed to pay one of the largest ever antitrust fines, and four of its executives will serve up to two years in prison for price-fixing and bid-rigging, the Justice Department said Monday.
This week as expensive emergency measures begin in the women's prisons, the price of the Government's indifference to the consequences of inequality will once again be on show.
Of A. Alfred Taubman, Sotheby's former chairman, who spent almost a year in prison for price-fixing, Auchincloss says in amazement, "He comes out of jail and he's just as popular and giving as many parties as he ever did!
A lot of otherwise productive citizens rot in prison and prices stay high enough to make the proceeds well worth killing over.
That ruling, coupled with breakdowns in the relationship between Archer Daniels and Michael D. Andreas, its former vice chairman who served a prison term for price fixing in the lysine market, greatly increased the probability that the company would lose the case in a trial, people involved in the case said.
Yet Peltier remains in prison, paying the price for the deaths of the two agents.
In America, the threat of prison hangs over price-fixers.The carriers concerned have vociferously protested their innocence.
Recently, Taubman's fortunes took a turn for the worse when Sotheby's, which he bought in 1983, ran afoul of antitrust laws and he ended up serving a year-long prison sentence on price-fixing charges.
