Mass Incarceration in the United States: At What Cost?

Courtesy Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Thu, 10/11/2007 - 9:28pm

Last week I referenced that the U.S.

Congress Joint Economic Committee was holding a hearing on the over incarceration problem in America .

More specifically I anticipated that the testimony of Dr. Glen Loury and Dr. Bruce Western of Brown and Harvard respectively would be worth listening to. And indeed it was.

From Loury :

First, I wish to emphasize that with the advent of the mass incarceration policy we have witnessed an historic...


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