From the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Editorial:
…We have bemoaned before the high cost of incarcertion in this country. A new look at the issue, in a recent New Yorker magazine, suggests that incarceration rates (and costs) continue to rise: “Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today – perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal-justice system -in prison, on probation, or on parole – than were in slavery then.”
More than 6 million people are under correctional supervision in America, and “that city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second largest in the United States.”
We are in no way suggesting light terms for illegal guns and homicides. But as the city frets over a return to “Killadelphia,” we need better understanding into what works to curb crime – and why programs that seemed to turn the tide a few years ago no longer do the job…
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