“There is no logic to spending a million dollars a year to incarcerate people from one block in Brooklyn – over half for non-violent drug offenses – and return them, on average, in less than three years stigmatized, unskilled, and untrained to the same unchanged block” (2003, 2). Tucker and Cadora suggest that a better use of incarceration funds would be to invest in jobs, economic vitality, health care, and social services in those neighborhoods hardest hit by crime.
