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Author: Sentencing Project

Title: Fact Sheet: Trends in U.S. Corrections

Summary: The United States is the world's leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in the nation's prisons or jails - a 500% increase over the last forty years. Changes in sentencing law and policy, not changes in crime rates, explain most of this increase. These trends have resulted in prison overcrowding and fiscal burdens on states to accommodate a rapidly expanding penal system, despite increasing evidence that large-scale incarceration is not an effective means of achieving public safety.

Details: Washington, DC: The Sentencing Project, 2013. 6p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 18, 2018 at: https://www.cfgnh.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Articles/nh%20healthystart/inc_Trends_in_Corrections_Fact_sheet.pdf

Year: 2013

Country: United States

URL: https://www.cfgnh.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Articles/nh%20healthystart/inc_Trends_in_Corrections_Fact_sheet.pdf

Shelf Number: 154027

Keywords:
Incarceration
Jails
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Prison Overcorwding
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Sentencing Laws