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For-Profit Prisons to Boom Under Trump Administration

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. We detain more people than any other country, and at a higher percentage of the total population. The epidemic is a fairly recent one, with huge numbers of people being sent to prison and jail beginning in the early 1980s, which, not coincidentally, coincided… Read More »