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Newshawk: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy: http://www.efsdp.org
Pubdate: Sat, 05 Aug 2006
Source: Hattiesburg American (MS)
Copyright: 2006 The DKT Liberty Project
Contact:
Website: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1646
Author: Ronald Fraser
Note: Ronald Fraser writes on public policy issues for the DKT Liberty
Project, a Washington-based civil liberties organization.
WE NEED A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO FIX MISSISSIPPI'S PRISON WOES
Sadly, America's first national prison commission in 30 years failed
to tackle, head-on, our lock 'em up culture and to find ways to reduce
the number of people behind bars in Mississippi and elsewhere. The
commission's recent report is little more than a how-to manual to help
wardens cope with overcrowded prisons that breed violence, disease and
recidivism. What we really need is a road map to drastically shrink
Mississippi's prison population and, at the same time, save state
taxpayers a lot of money.
In "Confronting Confinement," the Commission on Safety and Abuse in
America's Prisons, admits, "It was beyond the scope of our inquiry to
explore how states and the federal government might sensibly reduce
prisoner populations. Yet all that we studied is touched by, indeed in
the grip of, America's unprecedented reliance on incarceration. We
incarcerate more people at a higher rate than any country in the world."
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