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14% is huge, especially considering how many people commit crime because their life was destroyed by a drug conviction (their own or their parent's) leading to
by fjdlwlv 9y ago
14% is huge, especially considering how many people commit crime because their life was destroyed by a drug conviction (their own or their parent's) leading to further crime.
- rayiner 9y agoHow many people?
- tptacek 9y agoJohn Pfaff studies this at Fordham and also rebuts this variant of the argument: if you look, there's no strong correlation between people ever convicted of any drug crime and later sentencing. (His book, _Locked In_, is pretty great). Reminder: nobody, including Pfaff, is saying it's good we lock up drug offenders like this. It's bad, and we should stop. It's just not a solution to mass incarceration. To address that, we need an across-the-board fix for aggressive prosecution, which is what appears to be the most important factor ratcheting up prison populations.