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Its tricky to say, seems to me that prior conviction is not a very good metric. However I don't know any better way to figure this out either.
by nickik 11y ago
Its tricky to say, seems to me that prior conviction is not a very good metric. However I don't know any better way to figure this out either.
- tptacek 11y agoYou can take the analysis further and observe, as that study did, that the set of people incarcerated for violent offenses is almost entirely disjoint from the set of people incarcerated for drug offenses. There is very little overlap, not just in the current prison population but over time as well. We should end the war on drugs, of course, but we more urgently need to end what Ta-Nahisi Coates calls "the carceral state", and that will require much stiffer medicine than drug legalization.
- mineshaftgap 11y agohttp://www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2015/09/debating-mass-incarceration/405694/ http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2015/09/debating-mass-i...