Crime Rates and Incarceration Rates

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by: Ryan • February 16, 2015 • no comments

Key paragraph from this post by Kevin Drum, which includes an analysis showing no correlation between prison reduction and an increase in crime rates:

Mass incarceration hit the limit of its effectiveness in the late-80s and since then has been running dangerously on autopilot. It ruins lives, costs a lot of money, and has gone way beyond the point where it affects the crime rate. It's well past time to reverse this trend and get to work seriously cutting the prison population.