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...1990s and continued to grow, although more slowly, in the next decade. Go back half a century: as sentencing became more lenient in the 1960s and '70s, the crime rate started to rise. When lawmakers responded to the crime wave by building prisons and mandating tough sentences, the number of prisoners increased and the number of crimes fell...
With government budgets hammered red by the Great Recession, the high cost and human toll of the lock-'em-up strategy has made it hard to sustain. California lawmakers decided last month to cut the number of state prisoners by 6,500 in the coming year. Other states are already at work, on a smaller scale. In 2008, the most recent year for which data are available, 20 states reduced their prisoner counts by a total of nearly 10,000 inmates. As a result, according to the Justice Department, the number of state and federal prisoners grew by less than...
What complicated efforts to end Kirkland overflow housing in DeWolfe in the past was the allocation of funds to the Houses, according to Stallings. Stallings said that a reduction in the number of residents could spell a similar reduction in funds—a problem that Kirkland already faces as one of the smaller Houses...
Donato also noted that the Big Red shut down the Harvard offense, blocking a number of the Crimson’s shots before they even reached...
Fourteen, in fact, was the staggering number of blocks executed by the Big Red over the course of the opening two periods...