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What’s Hidden Behind the Walls of America’s Prisons
Loaded on April 2, 2018
by Heather Ann Thompson
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2018, page 22
Filed under:
Prison Reform,
Criminal justice system reform,
Statistics/Trends,
Conditions of Confinement.
Location:
United States of America.
by Heather Ann Thompson
Few Americans fully appreciate just how many of their fellow citizens are ensnared in the criminal justice system.
Some may have heard that there are about 2.3 million people behind bars, but that figure tells only part of the story. Yes, in a …
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- Prisoners in Kenya and New Zealand, Unlike Counterparts in U.S., Win Right to Vote, by Derek Gilna
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- California: Protest Over Bay Area Jail Conditions, by Dale Chappell
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- Challenge to Three-drug Execution Protocol Revived by Eleventh Circuit, by David Reutter
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- New Mexico Prisoner Obtains Court Order to Allow Breastfeeding
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