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Downsizing Prisons

Published in New York University Press eBooks • Mar 18, 2022
Authors:
Michael J. Jacobson

Abstract

Over two million people are incarcerated in America’s prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this specta...

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