Unlocking America - Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population

A 2007 report from the Center on Media, Crime and Justice, Unlocking America - Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population, summarizes current problems with our criminal justice system and demonstrates that incarcerating large numbers of people has little impact on crime and is not cost effective.  The report also make a series of recommendations for changing current sentencing laws and correctional policies.