Is It Possible To Let More People Out Of Prison, And Keep Crime Down? [NPR.org

Samantha Sangenito 7/16/1512:00 PM

President Obama has made incarceration reform a White House theme this week. On Monday, he commuted the sentences of 46 mostly nonviolent drug offenders; and on Tuesday, he spoke about reducing the prison population in a speech to the NAACP.

"The United States is home to 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of the world's prisoners," Obama said. "Think about that. Our incarceration rate is four times higher than China's."

And Thursday he'll become the first sitting president to visit a prison — a federal institution in Oklahoma called El Reno.

[For more of this story, written by Martin Kaste, go to http://www.npr.org/2015/07/16/...-and-keep-crime-down]

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