Mass Incarceration And Diminishing Returns    Most
criminologists will acknowledge that incarceration does have an
impact on crime rates but that given the sheer number of people
in prison the U.S. has long passed the point of diminishing
returns.  Republican Governor Mitch Daniels, to his credit,
tried to implement criminal justice policy reform in Indiana
which included some of the ideas in Hawaii's HOPE probation
program, but was stymied in part by members of his own party who
watered down the bill to the point that, if it had passed, it
would have actually "increased prison time, populations, and
budgets; the state would have had to build three new prisons, at
a cost of $210 million each with an additional $48 million a
year to operate them." Since the whole point of the proposal was
to save money while reducing recidivism, Daniels gave up and
promised to try again next year.  You need to be logged in to
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