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No clear return on public safety as U.S. jail rates reach 1 in 100, cost $49 billion.(Brief article)
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Community Action
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March 20, 2008
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For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 adults in America are in jail or prison--a fact that significantly impacts state budgets without delivering a clear return on public safety, according to the Pew Center on the States' Public Safety Performance Project.
The report points out that prison growth and higher incarceration rates do not reflect a parallel increase in crime, or a corresponding surge in the U.S. population.
Instead, more people are behind bars principally because of a wave of policy choices that are sending more lawbreakers to prison and, through popular "three-strikes" measures and other sentencing laws, imposing longer prison stays on ...
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