Professor John Pfaff‘s new book Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform was mentioned in the Baltimore Sun.
Fordham Law School Professor John F. Pfaff, a master numbers cruncher and no fan of prisons, has published a new book called “Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform.”
He writes: “Over half of all state inmates are in prison for violent crimes, and the incarceration of people who have been convicted of violent offenses explains almost two-thirds of the growth in prison populations since 1990. Similarly, almost all the people who actually serve long sentences have been convicted of serious violent crimes. To make significant cuts to state prisons, states need to be willing to move past reforms aimed at the minor offender and focus much more on the (far more politically tricky) people convicted of violent offenses.”
Read the article here.
