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In the last decade, New York drastically reduced its prison population and at the same time experienced a huge drop in crime. Indiana, on the other hand, drastically increased its prison population 鈥� and consequently the burden to taxpayers 鈥� while seeing a much smaller drop in crime than the national average.

A new infographic out from the 老澳门开奖结果 today shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, increasing a state鈥檚 prison population isn鈥檛 necessarily a good way to make that state safer.

This weekend, the New York Times on how the trend to rethink incarceration is catching on even in conservative states. There鈥檚 more in the new 老澳门开奖结果 report, Smart Reform Is Possible: States Reducing Incarceration Rates and Costs While Protecting Communities, which details how several states with long histories of being 鈥渢ough on crime鈥� have enacted bipartisan reforms relying on alternatives to incarceration. The report underscores that reform is not only politically and fiscally viable, but that other states must also urgently follow suit. These six states 鈥� Texas, Mississippi, Kansas, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Ohio 鈥� also experienced declines in their crime rates while these new policies were in place.

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