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Clinton Crime Agenda Ignores Proven Methods for Reducing Crime

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Clinton Crime Agenda Ignores Proven Methods for Reducing Crime Advocates say plan will increase incarceration rates and negatively impact the poor and minorities Monday, April 14, 2008 Washington, D.C.--The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) announced today that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's anti-crime package ignores critical research that finds that investments in employment, education, housing and treatment for those who need it is the most effective and fiscally-responsible way to improve public safety. Research shows that Clinton's proposal to revive former President Clinton's COPS initiative, which called for investments in policing, would increase prison populations, and may have a negative impact on the nation's poor and minorities, without significantly reducing crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 14, 2008 (boomark / email).