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Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations?
Submitted by strike on Wed, 2008-04-23 16:00
?The United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes ? from writing bad checks to using drugs ? that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries.? This fact cannot be pointed out often enough (3 pages).
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