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The United States has more people locked away in prison per capita
than any other country. Prison building is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and
in some states more money is spent on prisons and prisoners than on
education. Nearly one quarter of
all prison inmates worldwide are housed in U.S. jails or penitentiaries, even
though the United States has only five percent of the world's population. Yet,
in spite of the vast amount of resources spent on locking people up and the
number of people in prison, the United States leads the developed world in the
number of homicides and violent assaults.
For the last eighteen years, Jens Soering has experienced the inside
of many different prison environments, from a youth remand center in London to
America's notorious Supermax prisons, to medium-security institutions. What he
has seen and experienced has convinced him that not only do prisons not
rehabilitate prisoners who may be useful for society once their sentence has
ended, but prisons turn petty criminals into hardened convicts—all at enormous
expense to society. Meanwhile, other nations control their crime rates at a
fraction of the cost of the United States correctional
system.Soering
does not argue that prisons should not exist or dispute that there are people
who need to be locked away. His book is not an indictment of the legal system
that lands many people in prison. Instead, An Expensive Way to Make Bad People
Worse offers a mainly monetary analysis of why it is absurd fiscal policy to
lock people up so often and for so long.
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Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse: An Essay on Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective, The United States has more people locked away in prison per capita
than any other country. Prison building is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and
in some states more money is spent on prisons and prisoners than on
education.
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Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse: An Essay on Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective, The United States has more people locked away in prison per capita
than any other country. Prison building is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and
in some states more money is spent on prisons and prisoners than on
education.
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