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Crime Control and Common Sense Assumptions Underlying the Expansion of the Prison Population

The rate of incarceration in U.S. prisons has greatly increased during the past 25 years. Sentencing reform that stipulated increased penalties for specific crimes has had a great influence upon rising prison populations. Tougher sentencing has had the following effects: a 200% increase in violent offender incarceration with a 9% reduction in violent offenses; a $1.5 billion a year cost to incarcerate drug offenders with no reduction in drug crimes; and a greater racial disparity manifest in the use of mandatory sentencing. Accession Number: 015836

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