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A greater amount of money is spent on incarceration than on prevention and treatment, despite research showing that treating drug addictions is more cost-effective than incarceration. [11] According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse , a full year of drug treatment costs approximately $4,700 compared to over $30,000 for a year of imprisonment.
This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse fields, including physics, biology, math, and medicine.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American inventors. It includes inventors that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Opponents of decarceration include think tanks that assert mass decarceration would release violent criminals back onto the streets [12] to re-offend; law enforcement organizations that argue drug decriminalization and legalization will escalate crime; [13] [14] prison guard unions that seek to preserve jobs and economic security; [15] "tough on crime" lawmakers responding to public concerns ...
Formerly incarcerated Black and Brown populations in New York — a state with one of the country’s largest prison infrastructures — lose more than $1.6 billion per year, according to a new ...
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Advocates of reform point to the fact that 70% of students arrested at school are Black, further contributing to the criminalization and mass incarceration of Black individuals. [ 45 ] "There is a growing body of evidence that identifies child maltreatment as a predictor of lifetime anti-social and criminal behavior" (Basto-Pereira, Miranda ...
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