Sep 17, 2014

More Prisoners = More Crime

     That was the finding of a PEW study. Consider the statistics from states that imprisoned an opposite number of people and the resulting crime rate change:





Locking 'em up and throwing away the key is and was a simplistic non-solution. There are many factors at work, and the PEW study examines the in detail.

NOTE: Alabama's imprisonment rate between 1994 and 2012 increased by 45% and crime was down 19%. How did your state do?


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