Is Mass Incarceration in America Actually on the Decline?
If you follow the news, you may have heard that there's a bipartisan movement to stop locking up so many Americans. The New York Times recently wrote, “A bipartisan campaign to reduce mass incarceration has led to enormous declines in new inmates from big cities, cutting America’s prison population for the first time since the 1970s.”
Unfortunately for reform advocates, reports of progress towards ending mass incarceration have been greatly exaggerated.
