Tell it to the Judge, Part II: Less Crime, but More Inmates

Even as crime is stastically dropping, we still like to lock 'em up and throw away the keys.

The report doesn't even mention the appalling game of lottery that the prison system seems to be, with reports almost every day of folks being released--sometimes after years behind bars--once it's been determined they were wrongfully convicted. It does, however, note that prisons are populated by minorities in percentages greater than one finds in the general population. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.