A study by the Pew Charitable Trust reported in 2018 that at the end of 2016, fewer people were held in state and federal prisons than in any year since 2004.
Longer sentences? At one point the goals of incarceration supposedly included education and job training. I used to visit the prisons periodically, and from what I could see the State had never been able to make up its mind if it really wanted to do education and training, or if it was just about serving time.
Longer sentences? At one point the goals of incarceration supposedly included education and job training. I used to visit the prisons periodically, and from what I could see the State had never been able to make up its mind if it really wanted to do education and training, or if it was just about serving time.