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Incarceration Crimes
Incarceration is/is not a deterrent to crime?

The major question that comes to my mind regarding crime statistics is "Why is it that the number of people that are in the U.S. is rising at an unprecedented rate?" Analyst say that the crime rate has remained relatively flat over the last 15 years, but today we are seeing the most rapid growth in our nation's prison population since the first prisons were established in the 19th century.

Some say that this incarceration increase is due to the crackdown on drug users. Others say that it's due to the fact that sentenced offenders are more likely to be sent to prison for their crimes than ever before. I can only assume the reasons why our prisons are over-populated is because incarceration
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