Editorial: Coronavirus shows us the danger and inanity of our prison state (via latimesopinion)
Jails and prisons concentrate society’s ills. They have become centers of addiction, mental health breakdown, rape and gang recruitment. One judge labeled California’s prisons as “criminogenic” — fostering rather than slowing criminality. They harden rather than rehabilitate inmates.
No nation on the planet locks up so great a proportion of its people or gets so little benefit — and so much damage — from its efforts.Slowly, states and the federal government have rolled back laws and policies that have filled jails and prisons. Excessively harsh sentences, adopted and imposed during moments of societal panic over drugs and amid fear-mongering reports over a supposed wave of young predators, are being revisited.
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