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... are hampered by the fact that we do not have a solid empirical understanding of what caused the explosion in the first place. In fact, the “Standard Story” of prison growth generally overemphasizes less important factors and overlooks more important ones. This essay thus does two things. First, it points out...

... safety funding. They argued: 1. The main rationale justifying the growth in the U.S. prison population has been public safety, in the belief that higher incarceration rates will signi cantly lower crime rates. 2. Prison growth has been produced mostly by locking up an increasing number of people from...

... at the time. The rate of state prisoner growth slowed from about 7% annually in the years preceding the Crime Bill s incentive funding to less than 3% annually while such funding was available and during the years that followed. Federal Incentives for Prison Expansion Enacted in the wake of historic peaks...

... resources setting priorities in the use of such resources, restraining the growth in prison populations, and avoiding prison overcrowding. FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 32, NO. 2 DECEMBER 2019 117 D. Improved Management of Correctional Resources Prior to the adoption of commission-based sentencing...

...Jonathan Simon Abstract The movement against mass incarceration has made major strides in the past few years with politicians and the media becoming significantly less enthralled with prisons and prison populations themselves are dropping modestly. However further progress, let alone a major effort...

... system. Two examples appear in this Issue. Bureau of Prisons section chief Eric Simon uses the computer simulation developed by the Bureau of Prisons to identify changes in drug sentencing policy as the cause of 75% of all prison growth attributable to sentencing. He concludes that unless sentences...

... is available online at httpcolsontaskforce. org/cctf- nal-recommendations/ Executive Summary After decades of unbridled growth in its prison population, the United States faces a de ning moment. There is broad, bipartisan agreement that the costs of incarceration have far outweighed the bene ts, and that our...

... to state prison growth rates that reached as high as 12% in the 1980Õs, this is clearly a signiÞcant development. (To be fair, the growth rate of the 1980Õs emerged from a smaller base rate, yet the absolute prisoner increase in those years was still quite substantial.) 50 F E D E R A L S E N T E N C I N G...

... tied their presumptive guidelines to management of correctional resources and bed space. Nicholson-Crotty has noted that mandatory guidelines are, in fact, associated over time with restraint of prison growth but only if mandatory guidelines are accompanied by an explicit linkage to capacity...

...Marshall L. White; William J. Sabol Abstract Unprecedented growth in the size of the U.S. jail and prison populations during the late 20 th century was accompanied by rapid increases in the size of the probation population. Probation, while intended to be an alternative to incarceration, has been...

... Act are both commendable because they seek to alter key structures that have contributed to massive growth in the federal prison population. © The Ohio State University Sentencing reform U.S. Sentencing Commission clemency federal sentencing Congress EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Might...

..., and a resultant growth in the need for prisons.1 They were right. Prison growth and overcrowding have become a problem across the nation. In California, the problem is so severe that federal courts have ordered reductions in the number of state prisoners to redress ongoing constitutional violations caused...

... the next five years. This 13-percent jump triples the projected growth of the general U.S. population, and will raise the prison census to a total of more than 1.7 million people. Imprisonment levels are expected to keep rising in all but four states, reaching a national rate of 562 per 100,000, or one...

...Marc Mauer © The Ohio State University A Proposal to Reduce Time Served in Federal Prison Testimony to Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections MARC MAUER, Executive Director The Sentencing Project March 11, 2015 Introduction After nearly four decades of sustained growth, prison...

... the growth in imprisonment by nearly 5,000 prison beds compared to status quo.19 In June 2018, Oklahoma voters passed SQ 788, a ballot initiative legalizing medical marijuana in Oklahoma.20 Many observers believe that the passage of SQ 780 was crucial to driving popular support for 788. II...

... management of prison growth as an early goal of sentencing reform; indeed, the guidelines were designed to increase prison populations.18 The state clusters examined above suggest a larger pattern: as Kevin Reitz and other researchers have shown,19 having a system of sentencing guidelines combined...

..., it is noteworthy that Minnesota has experienced prison growth markedly below and Missouri dramatically above the national benchmark. 47 Several other states have followed Minnesota s lead, adopting presumptive guidelines systems that explicitly take into account resource constraints. Researchers have found...

... and the guidelines lengthened sentences for dangerous violent offenders.5 Over the next 20 years, Virginia had slightly less prison growth per capita than the national average for all states.6 Through Kern and the VCSC, Virginia was ahead of other states in the development of statewide probation revocation...

... Reinvestment Initiative States, Executive Summary After four decades of soaring prison growth and stubbornly high recidivism rates, the United States is rethinking its heavy reliance on incarceration. Individual states, recognizing that the scal and human costs of widespread imprisonment largely outweigh its...

... was governor when California, like so many other states, abandoned indeterminate sentencing in favor of determinate sentencing. The consequence of that change in California, as in many other states, was increasingly long and harsh sentences and a rapid growth in the prison population. Instead of a return...