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Packing our prisons isn't making us safer: Robert Mann

We have the nation's worst murder rate - 10.8 per 100,000, 45 percent higher than runner-up Mississippi - and the nation's highest gun-death rate. Overall, we have the seventh highest crime rate. Just tossing more and more people into prisons (with longer sentences for more crimes) has not made us safer. [read the full story here]

Times-Picayune, Saturday, August 2, 2014
Tags: Correctional Policy & Decision-Making, Federal
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