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How We Got to Two Million
How did the Land of the Free become the world's leading jailer? |
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Incubating Disease
Prisons are rife with infectious illnesses -- and threaten to spread them to the public. |
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Bad Investment
Gary Johnson, Republican governor of New Mexico, on why the war on drugs is a waste of money. |
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INCARCERATION ATLAS
Click the map for a state-by-state guide to who's getting locked up -- and at what price.
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What's the Alternative?
Society has to respond to lawbreakers, but it doesn't always have to lock them up.
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Breeding Violence
Locking people up is supposed to make our streets safer, but it may be doing the opposite. |
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Hundreds of thousands of children have a parent behind bars. What are the social costs of their loss? |
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![](images/index8.gif) | ![](images/spacer.gif) | Liberty and Justice for Some
Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. on the moral costs of mass incarceration. |
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