Tough Is Dumb
July, 2010
LOCKING UP CRIMINALS MEANS MORE PRISONS, NOT LESS CRIMEOno in 100 adult Americans is behind bars. We lock up five times as many people as we did in any year before 1975 and five times as many as any country to which we'd like to be compared. An African American male who doesn't finish high school has a better than even chance of doing prison time before he I urns 30. These are not facts to be proud of in the land of the free.Neither is our homicide rate, which is also about five times that of...
