Well, it's beyond dispute that prison populations nationwide quadrupled -- that's the whole point of "mass incarceration."
I don't know of any attempts to model how many crimes these inmates would commit if on the street.
Perhaps they're all choirboys, and the real crisis would be a communion epidemic. You're just walking down the street and this 6-5 jacked dude with prison pecs be like "BODY OF CHRIST, BLOOD OF CHRIST!" as he's jamming a huge ass wafer into your face... social science certainly can't refute this hypothesis...
I don't know of any attempts to model how many crimes these inmates would commit if on the street.
Perhaps they're all choirboys, and the real crisis would be a communion epidemic. You're just walking down the street and this 6-5 jacked dude with prison pecs be like "BODY OF CHRIST, BLOOD OF CHRIST!" as he's jamming a huge ass wafer into your face... social science certainly can't refute this hypothesis...