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Sentencing reform: The United States needs to cut the cost of prison

Among the casualties of a failed war on drugs that has spanned more than three decades are bloated prisons that cost the nation nearly $90 billion a year. With only 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States holds 25 percent of its prisoners; more than 2 million people are locked up in this country. [read the full story here]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, March 30, 2014
Tags: Correctional Policy & Decision-Making, Federal
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