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Mass Incarceration

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Eastern State Prisons and Penitentiaries

Prisons like Eastern State continue to be built in the US, Europe, and even Latin America throughout the 1800s. But these and other penitentiaries were more than just buildings that housed people convicted of crimes. By around the 1870s, it really was not the system that it was originally.

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