Category: Criminal

Here’s Evidence That Insanely Long Prison Terms Are A Bad Way To Deter Crime…

A comprehensive new report from the National Research Council (NRC) examining mass incarceration in the United States has concluded that lengthy prison sentences are not the most effective means of deterring crime. Over a span of four decades, from 1972 to 2012, the U.S. incarceration rate quadrupled, largely due to the implementation of harsher sentencing