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  • 022603

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  • Published 2007.
  • 3 pages.

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Mass Incarceration in the United States: At What Cost?

Publication year: 2007 | Cataloged on: Oct. 25, 2007
ANNOTATION: This website provides access to information from the JEC (Joint Economic Committee) which "will examine why the United States has such a disproportionate share of the world's prison population, as well as ways to address this issue that responsibly balance public safety and the high social and economic costs of imprisonment" (p. 1-2). Points of entry include opening statements, witnesses, and charts.
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