New study: Mass incarceration not helping reduce crime, Congress stalled on reform
As lawmakers continue to push criminal justice reform, a new study claims the of role mass incarceration in the drastic drop in crime in the U.S. over the last two decades has not been the cause.
“Incarceration is not effective at crime control – so we need to be doing something else,” says Inimai Chettiar, director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, which released its report “What Caused the Crime Decline?” on Thursday.
“All of these policies were enacted because people believed that they were going to bring down crime,” she says, referring to policies that have contributed to the U.S.’s ballooning prison population, such as mandatory minimums in sentencing and certain drug laws. “But they didn’t actually bring down crime.”
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