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America, mass incarceration has caused more crime than it’s prevented: A
new paper from University of Michigan economics professor Michael
Mueller-Smith measures how much incapacitation reduced crime. He
estimated that each year in prison increases the odds that a prisoner
would reoffend by 5.6% a quarter. Even people who went to prison for
lesser crimes wound up committing more serious offenses subsequently,
the more time they spent in prison. His conclusion: Any benefit from
taking criminals out of the general population is more than off-set by
the increase in crime from turning small offenders into career
criminals.
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