“Prison and the Poverty Trap”

Check out the latest article in The New York Times’ “Time and Punishment” series.

According to recent studies, “while crime may initially decline in places that lock up more people, within a few years the rate rebounds and is even higher than before.”

“The shift to tougher penal policies three decades ago was originally credited with helping people in poor neighborhoods by reducing crime. But now that America’s incarceration rate has risen to be the world’s highest, many social scientists find the social benefits to be far outweighed by the costs to those communities.”

John Tierney, “Prison and the Poverty Trap,” The New York Times. February 18, 2013.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/science/long-prison-terms-eyed-as-contributing-to-poverty.html?hp

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