Yet another report, yet another years-long study into Mass Incarceration.   This one recommends starting back at the home front:  help communities hardest hit with financial and family losses, and boost them up so they don’t all wind up a part of the larger problem.  Since that makes sense, probably no one will listen–but now you have!  “Resources should go into community programs that keep people out of jail and prison, including public housing, substance abuse treatment, and mental health programs. Those programs, in the long run, will be more important than programs offered inside prisons and jails.”  James Kilgore, responding to the report from the highly-regarded National Research Council (an arm of the National Academy of Sciences).

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/02-1