Category: Public Policy
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A Case for Treating Nonviolent Drug Offenders With Rehabilitation Instead of Prison Time
Our nation has an incarceration problem. As of today, the United States is five percent of the world’s population yet over twenty percent of the world’s prison population. Since 1978 to 2014, the population in prison or jail in the United States has risen by 408%. The most troubling of these statistics is that nonviolent…