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FLORIDA DOESN'T GET THE MESSAGE...

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

...on not incarcerating non-violent offenders. That was one of the conclusions of a NY Times Op-Ed piece entitled Prisons and Budgets. The title of the post links to the piece. From the Op-Ed piece: The United States, which has less than 5 percent of the world?s population, has about one-quarter of its prisoners. But the relentless rise in the nation?s prison population has suddenly slowed as many states discover that it is simply too expensive to over incarcerateBetween 1987 and 2007 the prison population nearly tripled, from 585,000 to almost 1.6 million. Much of that increase occurred in states... that had adopted overly harsh punishment policies, such as the ?three strikes and you?re out? rule and drug laws requiring that nonviolent drug offenders be locked away...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).