Robbing the Scholastic Peter to Pay for the Incarcerated Paul: The Show-Me State Showing Its Mulishness (6)
May 21, 2012
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By Jon Marc Taylor, Ph.D.
“New York’s success against crime over the past two decades,” observes Franklin Zimring, the author of The City that Became Safe: New York’s lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control, “has proved the wrong headedness of the ‘incapacitation or nothing’ strategy.”
Second: The next stage of reform needs to be action that substantially reduces correctional costs. A recent U.S. Senate survey of prison wardens from across the country revealed that half of their charges could be released tomorrow without jeopardizing public safety.