"Maine's crime rate has fallen 19 percent in the past decade, but its prison and jail populations have jumped by 50 percent during the same period, according to a new report.
That seeming paradox is among the dozens of findings in the 2003 Crime and Justice Data Book"(emphasis added)
Hmmm...does this mean that Mr. Canfield believes that if Maine emptied its prisons, then the crime rate should go down?
Maybe I'm just not nuanced enough to understand the subtleties of why a relationship between crime rate going down while prison popultation rises is a paradox. You must have to be a "free thinker" to get it.
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