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What Can the U.S. Do About Mass Incarceration? [TheAtlantic.com]

 

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America is a world leader in incarceration. The U.S. locks up more people than any other country, the University of London’s Institute for Criminal Policy Research reports. An estimated 1.6 million individuals were held in state and federal prisons at the end of 2014, while roughly 1 out of every 36 adults fell under correctional supervision, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Democrats and Republicans alike agree that mass incarceration is a problem, and state and federal efforts are underway to enact criminal-justice reform. But enacting effective reform requires an understanding of what caused the problem in the first place.



[For more of this story, written by Clare Foran, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...ncarceration/475563/]

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First, outlaw for-profit incarceration. Don't politically support anyone in favor of it. Second, get all the pot offenders sitting in jail out. Third, treat offenders for trauma, which must include somatic approaches. Fourth, restore their civil rights when released.

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