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Mass Incarceration With No End?
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
20 Mar 2018
🖨️ Print Article

Although US incarceration rates have been going down in recent years, at the current pace it would take 75 years to cut the prison population in half, according to Nazgol Ghandnoosh, of The Sentencing Project. Moreover, simply reducing the prison population does not address the system’s racial disparities and lack of rehabilitation programs. Even with half the inmates, the US would still “have a higher incarceration rate than our peer countries.”

Mass Black Incarceration

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