Rethinking Mass Incarceration in America [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/3/174:00 AM

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Starting in the 1970s, U.S. policymakers embraced draconian criminal-justice policies as part of the war on drugs. Tough-on-crime politicians rose to power by pledging longer mandatory-minimum sentences and more intense policing practices. The American legal system became the primary tool for addressing the nation’s social ills. And as incarceration grew rapidly in the following decades, so, too, did the coffers of an emerging prison-industrial complex.

[For more of this story, written by Matt Ford, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/po...ncarceration/518229/]

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