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Jamie Fellner: Onward and Ever Upward -- But Not in a Good Way

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

June 21, 2008 Onward and Ever Upward -- But Not in a Good Way Huffington Post by Jamie Fellner NEW YORK -- Two new federal reports highlight the profound disconnect in the United States between crime and punishment. According to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, the US prison and jail population has now grown to all-time high of 2.3 million. The United States not only incarcerates the greatest number of people in the world, it also incarcerates at the highest rate: last year 762 out of every 100,000 people in the United States were behind bars, a rate five to ten times that of other western democracies. The endlessly growing rate of incarceration does not, however, reflect growing rates of crime. The newest FBI crime report shows that violent and property crime declined last year, and remain near historical low levels...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 21, 2008 (boomark / email).