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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2903760" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., combined. Why?</strong></span></p><p>SEPT. 2, 2016</p><p></p><p>LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. — Donnie Gaddis picked the wrong county to sell 15 oxycodone pills to an undercover officer.</p><p></p><p>If Mr. Gaddis had been caught 20 miles to the east, in Cincinnati, he would have received a maximum of six months in prison, court records show. In San Francisco or Brooklyn, he would probably have received drug treatment or probation, lawyers say.</p><p></p><p>But Mr. Gaddis lived in Dearborn County, Ind., which sends more people to prison per capita than nearly any other county in the United States. After agreeing to a plea deal, he was sentenced to serve 12 years in prison.</p><p></p><p>“Years? Holy Toledo — I’ve settled murders for a lot less than that,” said Philip Stephens, a public defender in Cincinnati.</p><p></p><p>“I am proud of the fact that we send more people to jail than other counties,” Aaron Negangard, the elected prosecutor in Dearborn County, said last year. “That’s how we keep it safe here.”</p><p></p><p>He added in an interview: “My constituents are the people who decide whether I keep doing my job. The governor can’t make me. The legislature can’t make me.”</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/upshot/new-geography-of-prisons.html?_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/upshot/new-geography-of-prisons.html?_r=0</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2903760, member: 7629"] [SIZE=6][B]This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., combined. Why?[/B][/SIZE] SEPT. 2, 2016 LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. — Donnie Gaddis picked the wrong county to sell 15 oxycodone pills to an undercover officer. If Mr. Gaddis had been caught 20 miles to the east, in Cincinnati, he would have received a maximum of six months in prison, court records show. In San Francisco or Brooklyn, he would probably have received drug treatment or probation, lawyers say. But Mr. Gaddis lived in Dearborn County, Ind., which sends more people to prison per capita than nearly any other county in the United States. After agreeing to a plea deal, he was sentenced to serve 12 years in prison. “Years? Holy Toledo — I’ve settled murders for a lot less than that,” said Philip Stephens, a public defender in Cincinnati. “I am proud of the fact that we send more people to jail than other counties,” Aaron Negangard, the elected prosecutor in Dearborn County, said last year. “That’s how we keep it safe here.” He added in an interview: “My constituents are the people who decide whether I keep doing my job. The governor can’t make me. The legislature can’t make me.” [URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/upshot/new-geography-of-prisons.html?_r=0[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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