Prisoners Up, Crime Down

Read Cutting prison numbers in the Tuesday September 20, 2005 The Guardian“A prison population that took four decades to increase by 11,000 between 1951 and 1991, climbed by 25,000 in the following decade, despite the largest and the most sustained fall in crime for more than a century.”

How about that? So, basically whatever it costs to incarcerate criminals it’s a financial plus for the community.