[news] U.S. Prison System a "Costly Failure"

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The US prison population has risen eight-fold since 1970, with little impact on crime but at great cost to the taxpayer, researchers say...There are more than 1.5 million people in US state and federal jails, a report by a Washington-based criminal justice research group...says...[R]esearchers found that women represented the fastest-growing sector of the US prison population.  


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