In the last 50 years (since the supreme court unanimously reaffirmed defendant rights), the US incarceration rate has exploded more than 700%, while public defender budgets have plummeted about 600%.
A narrator takes us to an alternate 1997, nine years after the American crime rate has exploded fourfold and Manhattan has been turned into the country's only maximum-security prison.
In Mexico, with the vast ramping up of the drug war over the last six years, personal security has plummeted and the homicide rate has exploded, with more than 60,000 drug-related killings since 2007.
The Brookings analysis was most critical of the US punishment model where incarceration rates have exploded (from fewer than 50,000 people in 1980 to 210,200 in 2015) at huge cost to taxpayers despite the fact that few prisoners have access to any form of drug treatment.
Incarceration rates have exploded, even though crime rates have dropped.
The funding controversy in New York comes as charter school attendance rates have exploded over the last decade through a growing school choice movement.
The poverty rate in America has exploded.
Over the past 50 years, the geographic distribution and incidence rate of DENV infection has exploded, likely due to virus evolution, deteriorating vector control, the increase in international travel and uncontrolled urban growth (2– 5).
Finally, sanitation conditions are alarming as there is not hygienic latrine system in place and the rate of declared waterborne diseases has exploded since January.
The rate of diagnosis of such conditions has exploded over the past decade, in part due to the vagueness of the definitions, and the committee wanted to draw clearer boundaries.
