Prison and the Alternatives: Is Incarceration the Answer to Crime?

Prison and the Alternatives: Is Incarceration the Answer to Crime? How well do our prisons reform prisoners? What are the alternatives to prison? What is the best, most cost-effective way of protecting the public? These are some of the questions raised by individuals who are legitimately concerned not only with where their tax dollars are going, but also with what is being done to break the cycle of crime within their representative communities. When prisons …

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