Decarceration Problems and Prospects

5. how many jurisdictions of mass incarceration
7. What does LOS stand for?
8. Clear stressed the limited importance of _____ as a driver of mass incarceration
9. If mass incarceration is an aberration, we would want to return to this norm
10. An effect seen that when more got arrested when they were young,
11. states whose prison populations are not in decline are today seen as _______ cases
12. Dropping rates of incarceration are not explained by crime, they are explained by changing _____ prison policies.
13. _______ programs don't have as much power as we think to change the trajectory of prison release outcomes

1. determined by how many people go to prison and how long they stay
2. What can be done about ________________?
3. _________ percent of prison population is for violent crime
4. to date however the opioid crises has mostly stirred calls for more treatment interventions as opposed to harsher punishments. This may be due to the widespread public perception that opioid abusers are more likely to be _____ rural citizens and this less appropriate targets for public opprobrium
6. If rate declines stay at this rate, it will take __________ years to decrease the nations prison count by 50%