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| This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., combined. Why? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 4 2016, 08:47 PM (328 Views) | |
| Member013 | Sep 4 2016, 08:47 PM Post #1 |
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Donnie Gaddis picked the wrong county to sell 15 oxycodone pills to an undercover officer. If Mr. Gaddis had been caught 20 miles to the east, in Cincinnati, he would have received a maximum of six months in prison, court records show. In San Francisco or Brooklyn, he would probably have received drug treatment or probation, lawyers say. But Mr. Gaddis lived in Dearborn County, Ind., which sends more people to prison per capita than nearly any other county in the United States. After agreeing to a plea deal, he was sentenced to serve 12 years in prison. “Years? Holy Toledo — I’ve settled murders for a lot less than that,” said Philip Stephens, a public defender in Cincinnati. Dearborn County represents the new boom in American prisons: mostly white, rural and politically conservative. A bipartisan campaign to reduce mass incarceration has led to enormous declines in new inmates from big cities, cutting America’s prison population for the first time since the 1970s. From 2006 to 2014, annual prison admissions dropped 36 percent in Indianapolis; 37 percent in Brooklyn; 69 percent in Los Angeles County; and 93 percent in San Francisco. But large parts of rural and suburban America — overwhelmed by the heroin epidemic and concerned about the safety of diverting people from prison — have gone the opposite direction. Prison admissions in counties with fewer than 100,000 people have risen even as crime has fallen, according to a New York Times analysis, which offers a newly detailed look at the geography of American incarceration. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/upshot/new-geography-of-prisons.html?mwrsm=Reddit |
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| estonianman | Sep 4 2016, 08:48 PM Post #2 |
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More government will fix that problem. |
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| Robert Stout | Sep 5 2016, 03:02 AM Post #3 |
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Gaddis should not worry...Obama will grant him clemency so he can go back into business...........
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| estonianman | Sep 5 2016, 03:02 AM Post #4 |
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| MEEK AND MILD | |
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| clone | Sep 5 2016, 07:44 PM Post #5 |
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Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
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Note to self ....avoid Dearborn County, Ind ~Rush Limbaugh.... |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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