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    Here’s One Excellent Reason to Cut Prison Populations

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    By Newsroom on January 18, 2018 Faculty, In the News

    John Pfaff was quoted in a Huffington Post article about crime rates in the United States.

    “Whatever impact prison has on crime is weak enough that crime won’t inevitably go up if you cut prisons,” John Pfaff, a Fordham University law professor, told HuffPost. “Perhaps the states that cut prisons might have seen their crime rates drop even more had they not cut prisons.”

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