In the last decade, nearly all 50 U.S. states have declined in both crime and mass incarceration rates, but according to a recent report by The Sentencing Project (TSP), there's a startling disconnect between the two. This report exposes the limited impact of imprisonment on public safety and challenges the notion that higher incarceration rates lead to safer communities.
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In this episode, two Washington, D.C.-based guests -- Nazgol Chandnoosh, TSP's co-director of research, and Bryan Widenhouse, senior policy associate at FAMM (formerly Families Against Mandatory Minimums) -- discuss how mass incarceration hasn't been a major factor in the decline in crime since the 1990s.
