Our Overcrowded Prisons

The April 22, 2012 CBS story titled The Cost of a Nation of Incarceration shows the conditions of overcrowding in this countries’ prisons. In California the overcrowding was so extensive the U.S. Supreme Court labeled it “cruel and unusual punishment”. One wonders how this can happen when the crime rate has dropped over 40% during the last 20 years.

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