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Art Jipson’s profile on The Conversation

District Attorney Debate at Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored by the Sociology Department and the Criminology and Justice Studies Program: District Attorney Debate at Cal Poly Humboldt

My Turn: The path to enlightened criminal justice reform Published: 1/31/2021 7:00:07 AM The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any nation on Earth. That means that even non-democratic regimes like Iran, Cuba, and Russia that routinely jail people summarily have a lower incarceration rate than we do. Not only do all other advanced countries incarcerate at a lower rate, their crime rates in those countries are often also lower than ours. A wise friend of a notably different ...