Being something of a wiseguy, I’m tempted to answer, “They’re both full of crooks.” But there’s a more interesting and revealing commonality. Let me start by saying that the question came to my mind as a result of an Internet debate I’m having with a very bright (Harvard law degree) professor in the Midwest. He insists that the crime rate is unaffected by prosecutorial policies [N.B. the professor tells me that this is a misstatement of his views, which are instead simply that he is “eager to see more and more rigorous analysis, past, present and future, of the relationship between crime and prosecutorial policies so we can better assess their relationship.”].
One thing prisons and universities have in common is that they both have cons on the inside.
Jim Dueholm