Decarceration Problems and Prospects

3. A norm used to set a target to return to the prison level of other states.
4. states whose prison populations are not in decline are today seen as _______ cases
6. determined by how many people go to prison and how long they stay
8. how many jurisdictions of mass incarceration
9. What does LOS stand for?
10. If mass incarceration is an aberration, we would want to return to this norm
15. Reform advocated are disinclined to provoke the kinds of concerns that would arise from a widespread understanding that prison reform means releasing ________________

1. If rate declines stay at this rate, it will take __________ years to decrease the nations prison count by 50%
2. Politics is changing from get tough on crime to seeing that we have too many prisons and need a better chance for reformations and rejoining society
5. An effect seen that when more got arrested when they were young, more got caught up in the system later in life.
7. _________ percent of prison population is for violent crime
11. _______ programs don't have as much power as we think to change the trajectory of prison release outcomes
12. Clear stressed the limited importance of _____ as a driver of mass incarceration
13. 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
14. Dropping rates of incarceration are not explained by crime, they are explained by changing _____ prison policies.