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J ails and prisons are there for a reason: to keep the public safe, to deter crime, bring a sense of justice and responsibility, and, hopefully, reform offenders. A new report suggests that cash-strapped states could save millions of dollars by reducing sentences for nonviolent crimes without risking an increase in crime. The numbers of inmates and costs to hold them are significant — one in 100 adults are federal-state-local inmates. The inmate population has been rising — even as serious crime has been falling — as...
J ails and prisons are there for a reason: to keep the public safe, to deter crime, bring a sense of justice and responsibility, and, hopefully, reform offenders. A new report suggests that cash-strapped states could save millions of dollars by reducing sentences for nonviolent crimes without risking an increase in crime. The numbers of inmates and costs to hold them are significant — one in 100 adults are federal-state-local inmates. The inmate population has been rising — even as serious crime has been falling — as...