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...deposition, Hastings testified thatduring the second break-in, "a man gained entry byphysically breaking the [sliding door] lock andphysically moving the door so that he could liftthe door up and over the slide bolt and opened thedoor and came into the house...
...disturbing truth is that although three decades of lock-'em-up fever have made America the world's No. 1 jailer, there still aren't nearly enough cells to go around. The '80s zeal for harsh drug penalties has pushed the U.S. incarceration rate to 455 per 100,000 citizens and has run up an unprecedented annual tab of $21 billion for the construction of prisons and maintenance of inmates. As the nation's inmate population swells toward 1.4 million, prison officials must release career criminals to make room for first-time drug offenders. The growing public outcry against violent...
...PRISON BUILDUP HAS NOT come cheaply. The average annual cost per inmate is now $23,500. The average cost per bed in maximum-security facilities is $74,862. "You don't lock them up and throw away the key," says Howard Peters, Illinois' director of corrections. "You lock them up and spend thousands of dollars on them...
That revolving door helps explain why 80% of all crimes are committed by about 20% of the criminals. It also helps to make sense of the seeming contradiction that many states with high incarceration rates also have high violent crime rates. Florida has the 12th highest lock-up rate among states, and it ranks first in violent crime. Conversely, 12 of the 15 states with the lowest incarceration rates also score low on violent crime. Minnesota, for instance, has the nation's second lowest incarceration rate, jailing just 90 people per 100,000, and is ranked 37th for violent crime...
...Administration veteran. "People are going to have to get used to the fact that this is a different White House. It may look chaotic from the outside. The people who work there may feel it is chaotic. But if it works one more time, they ought to just lock it in and not fool with it. You've got to just hope that it's only going to blow up once in a while...