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Archive Home > 2008 > March > 08 > Prisons are worth it

Prisons are worth it


March 8, 2008

It is very important that the public realizes how a large prison population impacts society. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the United States is at one of its lowest crime rates of the last 30 years. During the early 1970s, 74 people out of 1,000 were victims of violent crime. The....

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