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The Mass Incarceration Problem in America
The US has the largest prison population in the world with more than 2.4 million locked up in the country's prison system.
Mass Incarceration in America
The prison population in the US has more than quadrupled since 1980, a rise that is historically and internationally unprecedented. No state has been immune to America's mass incarceration experiment, making each an aberration worldwide.
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