Making Crime Pay! December 12, 2003 English 111: Writing II Clarion University of PA David H. Dallas (author) Tough On Taxpayers "Let's get tough on crime", while a popular theme with politicians and voters alike, has spawned an avalanche of mandatory sentencing laws which have led to prison overcrowding and ballooning costs to the taxpayers. Over the next five years, the federal and state prison population is projected to increase to 1.6 million. The annual maintenance cost of a …showed first 75 words of 1808 total…

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