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Another strong editorial on mass incarceration

By Douglas A. Berman

The Newark Star-Ledger has this editorial expressing concerns with the practicalities and politics of modern mass incarceration.  Here is how it starts:For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 adults in the nation is in jail or prison, giving the U.S. the grim distinction of leading the world in incarcerating its people. Alarming is the only way to describe the numbers. At the start of 2008, a record-breaking 2.31 million U.S. residents were behind bars.  No other nation ? not China, not Iran, not Russia ? has so many prisoners either in sheer numbers or per capita.  Even as the crime rate has gone down, the prison population has gone up. Though the number of offenders decreased slightly last year in New Jersey, the state stands out because it leads the nation in locking up nonviolent drug offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 07, 2008 (boomark / email).