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Subject: THE PRICE OF PRISONS

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Anon

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Date Posted: 08:44:43 07/05/12 Thu

The United States leads the world in the rate of incarcerating its own citizens. We imprison more of our own people than any other country on earth, including China which has four times our population, or in human history.
Now, a new Pew report announces that we are keeping even nonviolent inmates behind bars for increasingly longer terms.

This comes at a time when soaring costs of prisons are wreaking havoc on federal, state and local budgets, as schools, libraries, parks and social programs are slashed.... For the full story go to: Lisa Bloom/CNN

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Re: THE PRICE OF PRISONS	sewer justice	19:23:50 08/04/12 Sat