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Toxic Persons New research shows precisely how the prison-to-poverty cycle does its damage.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Toxic Persons New research shows precisely how the prison-to-poverty cycle does its damage. By Sasha Abramsky - Posted on Slate Oct. 8, 2010 http://www.slate.com/id/2270328/ Forty years after the United States began its experimentation with mass incarceration policies, the country is increasingly divided economically. In new research published in the review Daedalus, a group of leading criminologists coordinated by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (which paid me to consult on this project) argued that much of that growing inequality, which Slate's Timothy Noah has chronicled, is linked to the increasingly widespread use of prisons and jails. It's well-known that the United States imprisons drastically more people than other Western countries...continue to full post

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