Tag: reducing prison population
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“…We’ve got to decide who we’re mad with, and who we’re afraid of.”
If even Mississippi has discovered that it cannot afford to imprison everyone, then when are we in Illinois going to get the message? Why Mississippi Is Reversing Its Prison Policy “… the incarceration boom appears to be reversing. Between 2008 and 2009, state prison populations fell slightly, by 0.3%, to 1.4 million, the first such…