In an era where crime has never been lower why do incarceration rates continue to skyrocket and how do we remedy what’s become a systemic problem perpetrated by both parties? With 4% of the World’s population and 22% of all prisoners something needs to be done.
Decriminalize drug use, create more programs to help people recover.
Remove minimum sentencing guidelines, every case should adhere to precedence but allow the judge to be given the opportunity to consider the context that is unique in each case
Idk, could be putting the cart before the horse. I was thinking with more criminals behind bars, there’s less of them out on the streets to commit crimes. That may be oversimplifying it, though.
What are the numbers of violent crimes committed resulting in convictions associated with these numbers? Also, these are 10 year (except 2017), totals. How many convictions are new or were counted during the previous 10 year compilation?
The homicide rate in the 2017 (5.4) was roughly half of what is was in 1980 (10.2). If the rate had stayed at 1980 levels roughly 300,000 addition people would have been killed.
Clearly we should not send people to prison unnecessarily, but simply emptying the prisons would have consequences.
That’s correlation but regardless by 1990 there were twice as many people in jail and the crime was never worse. No there is no provable direct link. Just supposition
