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Health and Incarceration
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Pages: 67
Authors: National Research Council
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-08 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparison to that
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
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Pages: 800
Authors: Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-31 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades.
Becoming Ms. Burton
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Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for
Halfway Home
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Pages: 267
Authors: Reuben Jonathan Miller
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A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply