Discuss correctional trends that have occurred during the past 50 years

What will be an ideal response?


Prisons in the twentieth century were a time of contrasts in the United States. After decades of sharp increases, the imprisonment rate peaked in 2007 and has finally leveled off, and the rate of imprisonment has declined. There remains a disconnect between the significant drop in the crime rate and the more modest drop in the imprisonment rate, however.

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