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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
@audubonballroon@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

"[Connecticut] cut incarceration in half, while crime plummeted...

[How did they measure crime plummeting - by reducing wrongful convictions]

[This was achieved in part by] eliminating some sentencing guidelines that affected predominantly Black People and POC."

Or in other words it was in part achieved by eliminating racism (within the sentencing guidlines).

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/mass-incarceration-reduction-crime-rates-connecticut.html

#blackpeople #blackmastodon

Slate Magazine

Connecticut Has Done Something Remarkable With Crime

Connecticut’s push to reform its criminal justice system started in the early 2000s but accelerated when Dannel Malloy became governor in 2011.
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