Otis states,” when we have more prisons we have less crime and when we have less prisons we have more crime” which is accurate because the unjust incarceration of people for petty crimes and sentences that doesn’t match the crime. Otis also goes on to say “that in the sixties and seventies we had less use for prisons and very few mandatory terms with a belief that rehabilitation worked and with the trust of the judge’s decisions, we got ourselves a national crime wave”, Otis is stating an opinionated fact even with the mass incarceration rate America is still faced with an out of control crime wave. So whether it be a few hundred of thousands or millions incarcerated there will always be crime. Otis is just telling a fable by basically saying by increasing the incarceration rate, the crime rate will
Otis states,” when we have more prisons we have less crime and when we have less prisons we have more crime” which is accurate because the unjust incarceration of people for petty crimes and sentences that doesn’t match the crime. Otis also goes on to say “that in the sixties and seventies we had less use for prisons and very few mandatory terms with a belief that rehabilitation worked and with the trust of the judge’s decisions, we got ourselves a national crime wave”, Otis is stating an opinionated fact even with the mass incarceration rate America is still faced with an out of control crime wave. So whether it be a few hundred of thousands or millions incarcerated there will always be crime. Otis is just telling a fable by basically saying by increasing the incarceration rate, the crime rate will