A staggering 30-year-long increase that may finally be abating.
The American prison population?
Perhaps. But in this case, I was referring to the AIDS epidemic.
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This blog was primarily written by Eric Sponheim, an attorney and analyst who worked on sentencing and corrections issues in state government. It sought to explore justice issues in the age of mass incarceration.
Above: Frontispiece of Beccaria's "Crime and Punishment" (1764)
"The most challenging problems of social policy in the modern world are never merely technical. In order properly to decide how we should govern ourselves, we must take up questions of social ethics and human values. What manner of people are we Americans? What vision would we affirm, and what example would we set, before the rest of the world?"
- Glenn Loury, March 11, 2009
- Glenn Loury, March 11, 2009
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