The United States is now spending about $60 billion a year to build new prisons and maintain the populations of the prisons we already have. The larger part of the tab falls to the states. The sentencing commission has shown a new readiness for flexibility in the last couple of years.(TOM TEEPEN 2009)
Texas, like many other southern states tend to use prison punishment more extensively than other states and also tends to hand out longer sentences for many crimes (Janda, Berry, and Goldman (Pag...
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