“In an interview with 24/7 Wall St., John Roman, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, explained that each state’s policies on enforcement are a major factor. ‘It really is a political choice,’ he said. There are several sentencing policies that can dramatically increase the number of inmates in a state’s prison system, such as mandatory minimum sentencing, which requires a minimum predetermined prison sentence length, regardless of the circumstances of the crime. Roman also pointed to three-strikes laws, which impose much longer sentences on criminals who have committed three or more serious crimes.”

http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/07/25/states-sending-the-most-people-to-prison/print/

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