Forum (Forum & Focus)
Mar. 11, 2009
Think Outside the Cell Block
If policy changes are what caused our prisons to become overburdened and dangerous, policy changes are what can fix them.
FORUM COLUMN
By Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll Despite lower crime rates over the past decade, prisons remain persistently overcrowded in many states, especially in California. This is because the number of people imprisoned has more than doubled over the past decades. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that in 2008, there were over 1.5 million people in federal and state prisons, up from about 320,000 in 1980; the equivalent figures f...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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