Incarceration Rates

Changing Our Prison Systems Will Take a Little Bit of Intelligence

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

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Michealene Cristini Risley

Think about it, for each person per year that we incarcerate, we are spending almost as much to house them as it would cost per person to pay off the national debt. Does this make sense?

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Let's Put the "Justice" Back in Our Juvenile Justice System

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

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Marian Wright Edelman

We can do better. Incarceration shouldn't be our society's first or primary response to a minority youth in trouble.

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Young, Black and Locked Up

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

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Marian Wright Edelman

Our ranking as the world's number one jailer represents a monumental national failure. We need to refocus what we do with the children we detain.

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