Define 'thesis' statement.
What benefit(s) does this provide BARR?
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Barr’s thesis in “The Case for More Incarceration” wasn’t subtle: “There is no better way to reduce crime than to identify, target, and incapacitate those hardened criminals who commit staggering numbers of violent crimes whenever they are on the streets.” Barr blamed “a small group of hardened, chronic offenders” and “violent predators” for America’s pain.
“Too many violent criminals are sentenced to probation with minimal supervision,” Barr wrote in the introduction to the report. “Too many violent criminals are sentenced to prison but are released early on parole or simply to relieve the pressure of prison crowding. None of us is naive enough to think that these criminals will suddenly become upstanding, law-abiding citizens upon release.”
He distilled the essence of his prescription to three simple points: “First, prisons work. Second, we need more of them. Third, inadequate prison space costs money.” For Barr, mass incarceration had no negative effects — “the most common objections to incarceration do not hold up to scrutiny.”
And a failure to incarcerate, he argued, will only cost the nation in tax revenue, jobs, and property value. He then suggested a simple solution — cutting the use of parole and probation as a crime-reducing measure because individuals who benefit from such arrangements of release commit “avertable crimes.”
https://www.aclu.org/blog/smart-justice/mass-incarceration/william-barr-was-ardent-champion-mass-incarceration