Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

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Why is mass incarceration moving to the suburbs?

"“District attorneys in rural and suburban areas tend to be much more punitively oriented, … with harsh, tough-on-crime rhetoric, and a lot of that follows from the attitude of the people that live in those areas,” Bucklen said. “They’re responding to the people that elected them.”"

Philadelphia Inquirer

June 26, 2018