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5 facts behind America’s high incarceration rate By Drew Kann, CNN ... But after decades of explosive growth, there are signs that the country is turning the corner on mass incarceration.

In short, it is evident that these non-sentencing factors can account for a majority of America's heightened incarceration rates compared to the 1960s, contradicting the mass incarceration ...

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Over the last few months, America's criminal justice debate has been focused on policing. But incarceration remains a divisive issue. The key question here is whether the U.S. has a "mass ...

With Elizabeth Hinton, Professor of History at Harvard University and author of the book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. About the book: In ...

That’s what John Pfaff, a law professor at Fordham University in New York, calls the “standard story” of mass incarceration. But in his new book Locked In, Pfaff offers a different account ...

He spoke with FRONTLINE about this cycle of incarceration, why it’s failed and what it’s doing to disadvantaged communities, especially African Americans. This is the edited transcript of an ...