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Trump Hailed This State’s Prison Reforms as a National Model — but the Numbers Reflect a Grim Reality

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting on May 17, 2019 Comments are Disabled

When Mississippi lawmakers passed prison reform legislation in 2014, they pledged to devote some of the savings to drug rehabilitation, reentry programs and prison alternatives. That hasn’t happened. Last November, as he rallied support for federal prison reform, President Donald Trump visited Gulfport, Mississippi, touting the legislation and what Mississippi had […]

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Study: Growing Up in Rural Areas Decreases Incarceration Rates

by Bill Bishop on December 4, 2018 Comments are Disabled

Children from poor families growing up in rural areas were less likely to be in prison by their late 20s and early 30s, according to a massive study conducted by economists at Harvard University. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren and a team of statisticians conducted this complicated study. Using Census information […]