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I dont know how anyone in business could fail to be disturbed by this report.*
Not only do we imprison more people than any other nation per capita, we have a ticking time bomb among African-American men, with more than 10% of prime career age behind bars. Literally decimated.
In the past 10 years, more than 1000 measures have been passed to increase sentences, and not a single one to reduce them.
This can't continue......
*excepting folks in the prison-industrial sector, of course....
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Prison rates had been declining well before the great increase in sentences- many experts think lower crime levels are tied to demographics and improved law enforcement technology. Nobody wants to see violent criminals on the street.
What the real situation is: state prisons are woefully overcrowded, nonviolent offenders who enter them don't get treatment or job placement or rehabilitation but essentially a graduate-level program in how to commit violent crime, and a background checked inability to get a decent job or training on the outside for motivation to do just that. This facilitates the nation's worst recidivism rate. Incarcerating more and more citizens does not make anyone safer; in fact, it has the opposite effect.
The war on (some classes of used by some classes of people)drugs is the number one political crime and the number one reason we have this problem.
The results of this problem in 20 years are frightful to contempate, and its a real problem.
Why is the USA the world leader, by far, of this sad indicator?
One larger question is not that they don't think they'll be caught but why do so many criminals not care about being caught and in California for example, being incarcerated for three strikes for committing "lesser" crimes?
Learned helplessness is a result of classism.
Bob, thanks for chiming in and Marty for the point.
And for those who are wondering what this has to do with recruiting, don't you think that the state of the social landscape impacts factors related to recruiting?
