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Bookmark or Share- How the 1994 Crime Bill Fed the Mass Incarceration CrisisThe 1994 federal crime bill that created tough new criminal sentences and incentivized states to build more prisons and pass truth-in-sentencing laws is getting new scrutiny during this 2020 election cycle.
- 'Tough-on-crime' policies are back in some places that had ... - StatelineThe percentage of Americans who think the United States is “not tough enough” on crime grew for the first time in 30 years, according to a Gallup poll released in November. Fifty-eight percent of respondents said they believe the criminal-legal system is too soft, up from 41% in 2020.
- ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Policies Are at Odds With the Presumption of InnocenceTough-on-crime policies and the aggressive, high-volume police and prosecution practices they demand also obstruct true justice and drive wrongful convictions by backlogging courts, overwhelming public defenders, holding people in jail for months before trial, and incentivizing guilty pleas — whether accurate or not.
- Will backtracking on criminal justice reform cut crime? - USA TODAYMost Americans (58%), meanwhile, now think the country is not tough enough on crime, a reversal from just a few years earlier (41%), according to public opinion polling from Gallup.
- As Crime Surges, Roll Back of Tough-on-Crime Policies Faces Resistance ...With violent crime rates rising in some cities and elections looming, their attempts to roll back the tough-on-crime policies of the 1990s are increasingly under attack — from familiar critics...
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