The Prison Boom with Shannon Heffernan
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The Prison Boom and the American Dream
I think nothing boils my blood faster than human beings being described as predators. From 19 80 to 19 89, the prison population in the united states more than doubled. I don't like citing crime statistics because i think that they are not the most reli measurement of actual crime. They're matthuring the statistic of when we wrote it downand when we captured it. You don't see a correlation between the prison boom and ariseing crime. And there's a lot of dfferent explanations people give about why mass incarceration arose in this time.
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