incarceration unsustainable?

Liza Featherstone lfeather32 at erols.com
Tue Mar 9 15:31:52 PST 1999


though-- a recent national study (done by the Sentencing Project I think) showed that of the many states that have recently passed 3-strike laws, only California actually uses them

Liza ----------
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: RE: incarceration unsustainable?
>Date: Mon, Mar 8, 1999, 5:43 PM
>


>Fellows, Jeffrey wrote:
>
>>Mandatory minimums and three-strikes laws have no immediate effects on
>>incarceration rates, since the affected individuals are going to prison
>>anyway.
>
>Mandatory minimums insist that someone go to prison who might not have
>without them, so that directly influences what the statisticians blandly
>call "admissions." And mandatory minimums and three-strikes laws slow down
>the rate of release, which also swells the prison pop.
>
>I figured, though, that they NYT wouldn't have given such prominence to a
>critique of mass incarceration if there wasn't an official rethink going on
>somewhere. Thanks for confirming my suspicions!
>
>Doug



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