Few Answers for Federal-Prison Overcrowding

Published November 8, 2013

Few answers for federal-prison overcrowding

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Addiction Statistics

If lawmakers were to apply retroactively new prison terms that they approved in 2010 for crack cocaine-related crimes, they would cut prison spending by $ 229 million over 10 years and free up 22,000 “bed-years.” One person released 12 months early … Read more on Columbus Dispatch

Charita Goshay: Off-year elections, too, are important

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Addiction Statistics

We could have clueless but willing candidates such as Anthony Weiner or current Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who recently was caught smoking crack cocaine but who plans to run for re-election. THE SPIN MACHINE. There also may be some less-pragmatic … Read more on Canton Repository

Even with changes, US prisons might stay overcrowded: report

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Addiction Statistics

The United States incarcerated 2.2 million people in state and federal institutions in 2011, the most recent year for which the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has published data. The huge size is largely the result of mandatory prison terms … If … Read more on Chicago Tribune