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"The easy answers -- the economy, improved policing and greater incarceration -- don't hold up if you look carefully," he said.
The news that the prison population in the United States decreased by 1.7 percent in the last year is certainly heartening (news article, July 26), but policy makers and everyday Americans should be aware that it's possible to achieve even greater incarceration declines without jeopardizing public safety.
However, individuals with less than a high school education (n = 44, 91.5%) had significantly greater incarceration rates.
Mr Grayling has very little room for manoeuvre: cuts of £350m to legal aid have been hugely controversial; slashing court and probation budgets still further simply to accommodate the cost of greater incarceration would be extremely unpopular, especially with the prospect of yet more public sector cuts to be announced.
Those upticks in crime are concerning, but Gelb argues that greater incarceration is not the answer.
Governor Mike Pence in nearby Indiana has been criticized for his close connections to the private prison industry, whose profits depend on greater incarceration rates.
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Although Attica was a high-security prison, predating the great incarceration crisis of the next decades, the population was the usual mixture of small-time thieves and mid-level drug dealers, mixed in with a handful of violent offenders and some imports from earlier prison riots.
They do this at great risk: incarceration and permanent banishment from the country.
Relatedly, the Obama administration recently released the 2013 Blueprint for Drug Policy that places greater importance on incarceration alternatives such as drug courts and probation programs aimed to reduce incarceration rates.
The difference is that for-profit hospitals tend not to poison people and break legs to keep their beds fully occupied, while for-profit prisons, as the JPI's report explains, tend to lobby for policies that serve them: harsher prison sentences and greater reliance on incarceration than on probation and parole.
Though, it was observed that individuals with SMI have a significantly greater risk of incarceration history than the general population; education may be a protective factor from imprisonment in this population.
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