The US’s incarceration rate is the highest in the world (1 out of 100 in the US are in jail according to a recent report). But it isn’t making us any safer:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w13784
http://www.slate.com/id/2186901?nav=wp
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The slammer is getting slammed — with an increase in inmates. The nation’s inmate population is at an all-time high, and has seen its largest year-to-year increase in six years, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report.
The findings, examining the time frame from July 2005 to June 2006, totaled up more than 2.2 million […]
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So much for US justice: juries get the verdict wrong in one out of six criminal cases and judges don’t do much better, a new study has found.And when they make those mistakes, both judges and juries are far more likely to send an innocent person to jail than to let a guilty person go […]
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