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At the cost of approximately $21,000 per year, California is spent $105 million per year to imprison shoplifters. This study examines whether it impacted crime rates.

This study shows that homicide rates are at best uneffected by capital punishent in California. 

A 1995 discussion of race and the criminal justice system in America.

Given the high costs to house elderly inmates in prison, and their low likelihood of reoffending, the public safety benefits of long sentences are called into question.

A follow up on a 1992 study of San Francisco’s racially disparate incarceration trends finds a city steeped in rhetoric rather than reason.