Dale Easley's Favorite Quotations
| Dead Man Walking |
| Prejean, Helen |
| In 1980 about 500,000 Americans were behind bars; in 1990, 1.1 million---the highest confinement rate in the world. And if parole and probabtion systems are included, in 1990 the United States had in its criminal justice system 1 of every 43 adults, 1 of every 24 men, and one of every 162 women, at the cost of $20 billion a year. Between 1981 and 1991 the federal government cut its contribution to education by 25 percent (in real dollars) and increased its allocation for criminal justice by 29 percent. |