Politics 2004/8

2004-08-13

I, Cringely: Why We Send So Many Americans to Prison and Probably Shouldn't

Cringley reports a fasicnating (in a horrifying, sick-making way) on the decision of the Department of Justice to bury a study they commissioned back in 1982 on the new federal sentencing guidelines. That study accurately predicted;

  • the explosion of both the prison population and the prison "industry"

  • the decimation of the black and Latino communities

  • the increase in violent crime

which we live with today.

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