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The Sentencing Project's response to George Will's Column: "More Prisons, Less Crime"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Sentencing Project www.sentencingproject.org Do More Prisoners Equal Less Crime? A Response to George Will In a recent syndicated column (?More Prisons, Less Crime,? Washington Post, June 22, 2008), commentator George Will argues that the world record incarceration rate in the United States has produced safer streets and has been beneficial in particular to African Americans, who are disproportionately victims of crime. Will?s selective use of data and limited vision provide an inaccurate portrayal of current criminal justice policy and its effects. Following is an assessment of some of the key arguments raised in the column. ?Liberalism likes victimization narratives and the related assumption that individuals are blank slates on which ?society? writes...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 26, 2008 (boomark / email).