Research on the crime control industry
Prisonsucks.com is a clearinghouse for useful, verifiable statistics about the crime control industry. Too often prison activists use statistics that are out of date, provided without citation or simply wrong. One of these days the public will start listening to prison activists, so let's be prepared to win without being sidetracked by arguments over defective statistics. In some cases, the numbers we need don't exist. In others, the facts exist but activists don't know where to find them. Now you do.
January 2004
New articles: Viruses of Mass Destruction & Doors of No Return
January 14, 2004
We've scanned in two articles by the brilliant Jon E. Yount:
- Public Safety, VMD and Prisoners comparing the huge government expenditures to fight non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq with the miniscule funding given to fight the Viruses of Mass Destruction spreading through America's prisons.
- Doors of No Return about President Bush's July 2003 to Senegal's Goree Island and its infamous "door of no return" for millions of Africans shipped to America as economy-enhancing slaves. Yount discusses the record U.S. incarceration rate, the rural location where prisons are frequently built, and Bush's comments at Goree Island that slavery was "one of the greatest crimes of history".