As our country comes to terms with the damage caused by our excessive reliance on punishment as a response to crime, the use of the criminal law to sustain racial hierarchies, and the ways the justice system has undermined our democracy and weakened communities,
First of all that’s not from the DOJ, it’s just linked to there and actually from the very left lib Brennan Center for Justice. Second, there is actually a litany of evidence that locking up criminals did the bulk of the work, but it’s well summed up in this simple graphpic.twitter.com/c15igBNuQ9
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Can't even read that, but: "A 2015 Brennan Center for Justice report found that increased incarceration was responsible for about 5% of the crime drop in the United States during the 1990s, and for essentially none of the crime drop there since 2000"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_drop
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Commentators and academics who question the role of incarceration in the crime drop have noted that Canada's crime rates followed similar trends as those in the United States during the 1990s; in contrast, Canada's incarceration rate did not change significantly during this
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