Le plus ça change… (I’m reading Les Misérables and apparently “cachot/dungeon” to “punishment-cell” is the French 19th c version of “solitary confinement” to “administrative segregation”)

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In fact, crime fell significantly across the whole country even as states slashed incarceration rates. We have 15 years now of simultaneously falling incarceration & crime. If incapacitation was the only crime control strategy that worked, how is that possible?

This "demand for incapacitation" language is the real key to this argument I think. In Charles Fain Lehman's world, there is a whole class of humans who should be locked behind bars to protect the rest of us and who aren't already. But who are these people? Violent crime is back to an all time low.

The study from the US looks at early release for 23-25 year olds and finds they committed crimes in the time they would have been incarcerated. This is not that surprising, that's the peak crime age & the well-studied age-crime curve shows it naturally drops off over time