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Two potent commentaries assailing mass incarceration

By Douglas A. Berman

Two local Michigan papers have these two new potent commentaries assailing mass incarceration: From the Oakland Press here, "State prisons too expensive, ineffective at reform" From the Detroit Free Press here, "Get-tough policies cause more crime, deny inmates a future" The start of the second piece sets out some data that reinforce my view that these topics ought to be much more prominent in year's election season:U.S. taxpayers spend at least $60 billion a year on a growing body of state and federal prisons, county jails and local lockups.  With jail and prison populations that have increased nearly eightfold over the past 35 years, the United States has become the world's leading jailer. More than one in every 100 U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 13, 2008 (boomark / email).