REPORT: The Statehouse-to-Prison Pipeline (January 2018)
This report examines the problems that arise from RI's routine passage of laws that create new crimes and increase prison sentences for current offenses, often with little analysis or logic behind them.
The report reviews every public law the Rhode Island General Assembly enacted since 2000 to examine the creation of, and revision to, criminal conduct and its statutory consequences. The result: a worsening of the problems of mass incarceration and over-criminalization.
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