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STAYING STUPID ON CRIME

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

From NY Times Op-Ed Columnist Charles Blow, an Op-Ed piece entitled "Getting Smart on Crime" caught our attention. (The title links to the article.)Stats: US Prison population has quadrupled over the last 25 years while the population has grown by less than a third. The US has more inmates per capital than any of the 36 European Countries with the largest inmate populations. The total number of US inmates is MORE than the combined total of inmates of those 36 countries. States spend 1 in every 15 dollars on corrections. Yeah, those drug minimum mandatories are really working well aren't they? A 2006 UCLA study found that in California it was cheaper to put drug offenders in rehab programs than to incarcerate them, and the recidivism rate is much lower...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).