{"id":5290,"date":"2021-12-08T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2021-12-08T12:08:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:08:35","slug":"does-the-electorate-want-more-prison-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5290","title":{"rendered":"Does the Electorate Want More Prison or Less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a hat-tip to Sentencing Law and Policy, I bring you this <a href=\"https:\/\/sentencing.typepad.com\/sentencing_law_and_policy\/2021\/12\/noting-differing-perceptions-of-whether-prison-time-is-too-long-or-too-short-or-just-right-in-the-us.html\">poll<\/a> from the Pew Research Center, a center-left outfit that often does useful research.\u00a0 The question it asked was whether respondents thought people convicted of crime spend too much, too little, or about the right amount of time in prison.\u00a0 The results will not come as good news to those campaigning for &#8220;decarceration&#8221; (and thus, though they refuse to admit it, more grisly episodes like the Waukesha massacre).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In sum, the result is that about 70% of the public thinks convicted criminals spend about the right amount of time in prison (37%) or too little (32%), while just short of three in ten (28%) think sentences are too long.<\/p>\n<p>Among the more interesting results was that a distinct <em>minority<\/em> of Democrats (41%), and of blacks (40%), think that criminals are incarcerated for too much time.\u00a0 Clear majorities of those groups think the present level of prison sentences is about right\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 or not enough.<\/p>\n<p>For years, we have heard that America is a shameful &#8220;incarceration nation&#8221; and that shorter sentences and early release are not only the right thing to do, but are politically popular.\u00a0 In dramatic fashion, this poll puts the lie to that argument.\u00a0 When &#8220;about right&#8221; or &#8220;not enough&#8221; is beating &#8220;too much&#8221; by 70% to 30%, there isn&#8217;t much room for doubt:\u00a0 The public overwhelmingly rejects the main staple of criminal justice &#8220;reform.&#8221;\u00a0 Indeed, the groups most often said to be its main supporters also, and quite clearly, don&#8217;t want it.<\/p>\n<p>Congress, are you listening?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sentencing.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451574769e20282e13653bd200b-pi\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a hat-tip to Sentencing Law and Policy, I bring you this poll from the Pew Research Center, a center-left outfit that often does useful research.\u00a0 The question it asked was whether respondents thought people convicted of crime spend too much, too little, or about the right amount of time in prison.\u00a0 The results will not come as good news to those campaigning for &#8220;decarceration&#8221; (and thus, though they refuse to admit it, more grisly episodes like the Waukesha massacre).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polls"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does the Electorate Want More Prison or Less? 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