Franklin Zimring Says Prisons Don’t Work

KALW Crosscurrents, May 19, 2010 by David Onek
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“The thing that is being missed about the lessons from New York City is that the two largest assumptions that have been driving crime policy in this country are probably the wrong way to go about things. Our theory was that … only incapacitation works. New York has disproved that.”