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...response to the dramatic surge in crime in the 1960s, lawmakers across the country and at all levels of government responded with a novel and dangerous policy known today as mass incarceration. Sociologist David Garland defines mass incarceration as the policies that produce a national imprisonment rate that exceeds the historical and comparative norm for similar societies. Since then, the U.S. incarceration rate has skyrocketed to 715 per 100,000, the highest in the world (Russia is a distant second...
...look to changes in criminal law over the past decades to explain how we achieved this unprecedented rate. Drug crimes account for much of the increase in prison populations. In 12 years, the prison population with drug convictions leapt from 6% in 1979 to 25% in 1991 at the state level and from 25% to 56% at the federal level and these numbers continue to grow. In addition, the courts have become increasing punitive. Arrest rates increased, and defendants are convicted at higher rates for longer sentences. Mass incarceration expanded the net of criminality to include drug offenses and public...
...offenders recidivate (commit another crime) within 3 years of their release from prison. One in 10 black children have a parent in prison; one in three black children whose parents have no gone to college will lose a parent to prison by the time they are 14. The unemployment rate for black men is estimated between 30 and 60%, and black people are seven times more likely to go to prison that white people. The greatest crime of all is that our politicians and policymakers can look at these numbers and persist in the ignorant and unjust policies that brought...
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...United States, in Denver and now this one - I'm assuming from the CNN reporting that they think everyone is safe - but in both of the major incidents, the plane that went off the runway in Denver and this incident, you've got very, very high survival rates: 100% in Denver - with some injuries, obviously - and what looks like 100% here. People generally believe that no one survives a plane crash. But according to government data, 95.7% of the passengers involved in airplane crashes categorized as accidents actually survive. Then, if you look at the most serious plane crashes, that...