Matt's Place

8/17/2004

Why We Send So Many Americans to Prison and Probably Shouldn’t

Filed under: — Mattp9 @ 5:07 pm

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Check out Robert X.
Cringley’s column of last week.

One in 12 African-Americans are behind bars .

Over 2 Million Americans behind bars.

Why has the prison population grown at a much faster rate than the whole population over the past 20 years?

Read on for one person’s thoughts on the subject.

Deterrence or Punishment, which works better to reduce crime?

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