Life in prison for stealing food

Adam Stevens a_ste at uclink4.berkeley.edu
Thu Jun 3 22:56:49 PDT 1999



>Wasn't there an Op-ed in the WSJ a few months back that argued that if
>Europe wanted to have a crime rate as low as the U.S. it would have to start
>locking up a lot more people?
>
>Jim Baird>

That must have been an interesting Op-ed because Europe's crime rate is already substantially lower than the US's. Their incarceration rate is lower, their respective criminal justice systems are less punitive AND their crime rate is lower.



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