People's Agenda/Criminal Justice Reform
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The incarceration rate in the United States today is five times what it was 40 years ago -- roughly half a percent of the population since 2003 vs. 0.1 percent between 1925 and 1974; see the accompanying plot. The Wikipedia article on the United States incarceration rate discusses the changes in law and judicial practices that have driven this increase and offers only one explanation for the socio-political context that drove those changes in law: |
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