I have another question that logically stems from this. No doubt there were huge social and financial costs to doing that, but comparing crime rates in Canada, which has kept a relatively stable incarceration rate, with those in the United States and the United Kingdom, what impact did it have on actually making communities safer? In other words, with all of those billions of dollars of spending on prisons and all of the social problems that were wrought by doing it, was it the experience that it didn't make the community safer in that same period of time, that in fact the United States became more dangerous?
On October 27th, 2009. See this statement in context.