Why prisons continue to grow, even when crime declines

(Ohio State University) A new study may help explain why the number of people in prison in the United States continued to rise, even as the crime rate declined significantly. Using data from Minnesota, an Ohio State University sociologist found that the US criminal justice system continues to feel the reverberations from the increase in violent crime and imprisonment that occurred from the 1960s to the early 1990s.

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