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Mass Incarceration

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Prisons - The New Prison Model

Alexis de Tocqueville visited Eastern State Penitentiary in 1831. The purpose of his visit was to learn about innovative American prisons for the French government. Almost every prisoner is in tears, they say. In the gloomy solitude of a sullen cell, there is not one redeeming principle.

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