CSPAN2 Book Discussion On In A Different Key February 14, 2016
Question about that. Although we need to look not only at incarceration rates, we also also need to look at time served for crime which is someways a better indicator of our incarceration. In any event, this massive buildup in our imprisonment system definitely may have had a positive impact in terms of crime reduction. Just from the standpoint of of keeping people in prison from praying against innocent victims , just from that standpoint alone never mind deterrent, but just the fact that you keep protect the population by locking people up if there are thousands of thousands of people locked...
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