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Human Rights in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
Loaded on June 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1991, page 7
Human Rights In The U.S. Criminal Justice System
Filed under:
Political Prisoners,
Racial Discrimination,
Crime/Demographics,
Crime.
Location:
United States of America.
by Equal Justice U.S.A.
In addition to it's current use and expansion of the death penalty, the United States enters the 1990's with the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Over one million of our sisters and brothers are behind bars …
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