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| New state task force looks to address rise in Minnesota's prison population |
| By minnpost.com- Andy Mannix |
| Published: 09/25/2015 |
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With less than six months to go before the 2016 legislative session, Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, announced a new task force this week designed to come up with solutions to Minnesota’s prison overpopulation problem. As MinnPost reported in June, harsher penalties for DWIs, drugs and other offenses caused the state’s prison population to spike in recent years. Since 2000, the rate of incarceration — the number of inmates per 100,000 residents — went up 42 percent. During that same time period, the crime rate in Minnesota dropped significantly. According to a study from the Brennan Center for Justice, the rise in imprisonment didn’t have any significant impact on the crime decline. Read More. |
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