Incarceration Rate Of Crime

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I think we all know that by criminals being incarcerating, crime won’t stop. “We have been growing the prison population whether crime rates went up or went down, whether we were in good economic times or bad, during war, during peace, when the number of young men in the crime-prone age group was increasing at the same time that it was decreasing”. (WEBPAGE) When someone from the neighborhood goes to prison, the neighborhood try to replace that person. So when the person comes back to the neighborhood from prison, there is now more offenders in the neighborhood. There is a fifty fifty chance that the criminal learned the lesson by being in prison, but at the same time the criminal might come out worse. I do believe that the incarceration rates