Though our massive investment in imprisonment has not resulted in an enduring public safety, politicians, policy makers, and the media continue to insist that America's unique problem of violence is the result of a lenient society "soft" on criminals that incarcerating an ever larger proportion of our population is a "social program that works" and that all other approaches to crime - from prevention to rehabilitation - have failed. Despite the recent declines in urban crime rates, we remain the most violent industrial society on earth. One in three young black men is in prison, on parole, or on probation. There are five times as many Americans behind bars today as in 1970 California's prison system is the third largest in the world. Debunks prison myths and discusses proven, effective means of crime prevention. Fact based argument showing crime is driven by poverty. Effective rebuttal to the right wing proponents of prison building.
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