Mass incarceration as a public policy

Jonathan Simon cited in The Huffington Post, The Blog, April 24, 2012

Although Professor Simon concluded that the era of mass incarceration has come to an end, too expensive to continue as a public policy, he cautioned that no one should expect incarceration rates to drop precipitously. The end of “mass incarceration” only meant that the hyperbolic growth of the past 30 years would stop.