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Are We There Yet? The Promise, Perils and Politics of Penal Reform

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2016 by Marie Gottschalk published in Prison Legal News January, 2016, page 1
Filed under: Prison Reform, Statistics/Trends. Location: United States of America.

Fifteen years ago, mass imprisonment was largely an invisible issue in the United States. Since then, criticism of the country’s extraordinary incarceration rate has become widespread across the political spectrum. The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few ardent defenders today. But reforms to reduce the …

 

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