America is a nation that locks up more people per capita than any other country in the world. The Sentencing Project reports 2.2 million people are incarcerated in America’s prisons. That’s a 500% increase over…
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Dodging Decarceration: The Shell Game of ‘Getting Smart’ on Crime
by Heather Ann Thompson, Life of the Law Advisory Panel Scholar
Before we break out the champagne, or before we begin thinking that we are indeed on our way to a more humane criminal justice system, there is much that we might scrutinize more carefully. It is indeed too early to get excited about an end to mass incarceration.
