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| Bloomberg touts prison record |
| By timesledger.com - Rich Bochmann |
| Published: 01/08/2014 |
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Just a few days before he left office, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in downtown Jamaica last week touting his administration’s work to reduce incarceration rates at the same time the city is experiencing record-low levels of crime. “Now we think that this is a huge success and that there is a connection between incarcerating fewer young people and having a lower crime rate,” Bloomberg said during a news conference at the city Department of Probation office at the corner of Guy R. Brewer Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue. “We kept our city safer — the bottom line — while locking up fewer people and the connection is exactly what you think because all the evidence shows that all too often repeated spells behind bars can lock inmates into a cycle of poverty and crime,” he added. “So if we can avoid putting people into that situation, we should be having fewer people in the streets committing crimes.” Read More. |
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