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Prisons Cost More Than Harvard

Loaded on Sept. 15, 1992 published in Prison Legal News September, 1992, page 7
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Education. Location: United States of America.
A recent William Raspberry article on alternatives to imprisonment pointed out the folly of continuing to waste tax dollars on a system (imprisonment) that is ineffective, does not deter crime, and could inadvertently provide impetus to a problem that is already epidemic.

Raspberry's position is that increased imprisonment will inevitably ...

 

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