End Mass Incarceration
United States has under five percent of the world’s population but over 30 percent of the world’s prisoners. That’s because over two million adults are currently in the United States’ prisons and jails, putting the U.S. ahead of all other countries when it comes to incarceration rate.
The U.S. mass incarceration crisis has been a long time in the making. Lawmakers in the ’80s and ’90s competed to see who could get more “tough on crime.” Typically that meant passing harsh sentencing laws with mandatory minimums and longer prison terms.
Unfortunately, criminal law, incarceration and police have often been the default method used to dealing with society's problems when it should be the last resort.
The U.S. mass incarceration crisis has been a long time in the making. Lawmakers in the ’80s and ’90s competed to see who could get more “tough on crime.” Typically that meant passing harsh sentencing laws with mandatory minimums and longer prison terms.
Unfortunately, criminal law, incarceration and police have often been the default method used to dealing with society's problems when it should be the last resort.
| University of Texas School of Law - Criminal Records in a Digital Age (March 2013) |
| David Alan Sklansky - The Problems With Prosecutors (Sept 2017) |
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers - The Trial Penalty (July 2018) |
Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
http://www.texascjc.org/
Stop Mass Incarcertion
http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/
Grits for Breakfast
gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com
Why Mass Incarceration Defines Us As a Society
www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Mass-Incarceration-Defines-Us-As-a-Society-179994441.html
http://www.texascjc.org/
Stop Mass Incarcertion
http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/
Grits for Breakfast
gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com
Why Mass Incarceration Defines Us As a Society
www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Mass-Incarceration-Defines-Us-As-a-Society-179994441.html
