] The Block and Nold study, which was intended to
] economically validate the proposed sentencing guidelines,
] instead showed that the new guidelines would actually
] create more crime than they would deter. More crime, more
] drug use, more robbery, more murder would be the result,
] not less.

A little out of Cringely's league perhaps? But very interesting...

PBS | I, Cringely Why we send more people to prison then we should