An archival record of the monstrous destruction human life in the legacy left by Former Gov. Mario Cuomo! Ditto: Thank you, Margaret Kimberley, for sharing this important article from the archives. ---Pamela D Reed Cuomo boasted of having put nearly 10,000 dangerous felons behind bars. The inmate population of New Yorks prisons had indeed grown by roughly that number during his first term in office. But the proportion of offenders being incarcerated for violent crimes had fallen from 63 percent to 52 percent during those four years. In 1987 New York State sent almost a thousand fewer violent offenders to prison than it had in 1983. Despite having the toughest anti-drug program and one of the fastest-growing inmate populations in the nation, New York was hit hard by the crack epidemic of the 1980s and the violent crime that accompanied it. From 1983 to 1990 the states inmate population almost doubled—and yet during that same period the violent-crime rate rose 24 percent. Between the passage of the Rockefeller drug laws and the time Cuomo left office, in January of 1995, New Yorks inmate population increased almost fivefold. And the states prison system was more overcrowded than it had been when the prison boom began.
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