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• November 8 -- Criminal Negligence of Cause and Effect
Crime reporter Fox Butterfield files "Despite Drop In Crime, An Increase In Inmates," yet another Butterfield story that fails to grasp that putting criminals in prison can actually lead to a drop in crime.

• July 7 -- Have I Mentioned Abu Ghraib This Week?

• May 13 -- Prisons Fill, Crime Falls, Times Reporter Frets
Crime reporter Fox Butterfield Wednesday picks up a study from an unlabeled liberal group, the Sentencing Project, and frets over the increasing length of prison sentences.

• July 28 -- “Crime Falling, Yet Prisons Still Filling,” Part XIX
Ever since 1997, when the Times ran the headline, “Crime Rates are Falling, but Prisons Keep on Filling,” the paper hasn’t grasped the connection between more criminals being in prison and a drop in the crime rate. Monday’s front page offered yet another naïve take on the subject.