Downsizing prisons: how to reduce crime and end mass incarceration

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Over two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this s...

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Main Author: Jacobson, Michael 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: New York and London New York University Press c2005
In:Year: 2005
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Keywords:
Prisons > United States
Probation > United States
Alternatives to imprisonment > United States
Criminals > Rehabilitation > United States
Parole > United States
Alternatives to imprisonment ; United States
Criminals ; Rehabilitation ; United States
Parole ; United States
Prisons ; United States
Probation ; United States
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