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Downsizing prisons
how to reduce crime and end mass incarceration
By Jacobson, Michael F.
- ISBN
- 978-0-81474-274-7
- Publisher
- New York ; New York University Press, c2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2005
The United States locks up more of its population than any other country in the world. There are over two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails--eight times the rate in 1975. This increase can be greatly attributed to sentences for nonviolent drug and property offenses, which skyrocketed during the 1990s. J...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
