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Will we invest in classrooms or cells in these tough times?

By Douglas A. Berman

Eric Lotke blogging over at the website of the Campaign for America?s Future has this notable and important new post titled "Good Building, Bad Building."  Here are some snippets from today's must-read (with lots of great links not copied here): China has opened a new subway system every year for the past six years. The U.S. has opened 45 new prisons and jails. Who?s setting up to lead in the 21st century?... Even as states spend nearly $50 billion on prisons every year and counties spend over $20 billion on jails, we build additional locked capacity. Even with U.S. incarceration rates at seven times historical and international norms, we build. Even as crime continues on its 15-year descent to levels not seen in 40 years, we find money to build even more...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).