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Incarceration is Policy Failure

2019-07-23 20:29:35.174875+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Incarceration Is Always A Policy Failure:

When the jail closure was announced, critics feared that crime would skyrocket as a result of limited jail space, but the opposite was true. From 2008 to 2014, violent crime in Cincinnati dropped by 38.5 percent, property crime by 18.9 percent. Felony arrests dropped by 41.3 percent, and misdemeanor arrests by 32.7 percent. Engel noted that crime and arrests were already on the decline in Cincinnati before the jail’s closure, but stressed that “the continuation of these downward trends, uninterrupted by the jail closure, is powerful.”

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#Comment Re: Incarceration is Policy Failure made: 2019-07-28 20:13:41.437508+00 by: meuon

When you don't have to feed the beast... the beast dies,

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