Kinds of things go, because fear makes you act rashly and what happened was that the fear was played upon, and prison was presented, and mass incarceration was presented as the opt way to deal with crime, and we know that there is no correlation between the drop in crime rates and the rise in mass incarceration. Study after study has shown this. We know there are other routes. It did not have to be this route towards mass incarceration. Host were in california, the home of the strikes and your out. That has been effective in any way . Guest hardly. Californias tree strikes and your another, we have the rock fell are drug laws in new york, a whole host of other tough sentencing laws that have landed, again, millions of people in jails and prisons and under correctional supervision, draining our resources and draining us of the value of these human beings, who could be contributing to society in all kinds of ways. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. A History New