No, it's not a result of crime, it's a result of decades of policy. Reagan started it, Clinton knocked it out of the park. The United States has 5% of the world's population and 25% of it's prisoners. Prison Reform is one of the only issues which there is bi-partisan agreement. That agreement being: we've destroyed the lives of an entire generation, devastated impoverished communities and we have to fix it. We seriously f***ed up.