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PA Prison Expansion Fails to Cut Crime

Loaded on June 15, 1993 published in Prison Legal News June, 1993, page 11
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime. Location: Pennsylvania.
A recent report prepared for the Pennsylvania State Commission on Sentencing found that a dramatic increase in the state's prison population has not reduced violent crime.

The report, Incarceration and Crime: Facing Fiscal Realities in Pennsylvania, by Penn State University Professor Darrell Steffensmeier, found that between 1980 and 1991 the ...

 

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