[lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1736, Issue 3

[Mike Beggs]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
>
> There's more to it than that, however. In some sense, prison is the end
> result; it's the symptom, not the disease.  That so many people wind up in
> prison in the US is not specifically a problem of prisons -- getting rid of
> them will not cure the problem any more than prohibiting the sale of
> band-aids will cure the scrapes and bruises of a 9 yr old boy -- or Reagan's
> closing of the hospitals "cured" mental health problems.

There is another variable - length of sentences.

Mike