Posted on June 17, 2008 - 6:49am at Stone Soup Station
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"Unlucky citizens who fall victim to the U.S. justice system are treated like profit centers to be squeezed without mercy."
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"Over the next five years, the American prison population is projected to increase three times more quickly than our resident po
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Posted on January 1, 2008 - 9:07am at Stone Soup Station
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Often it isn't prison that is so bad, its what happens after someone is released and must try to survive with the stigma of a felony conviction on their record for the rest of their lives.
It's damned near impossible to make it with that jacket attached to you.....
Millions in the Slammer: We Must Reverse America's Zeal to Incarcerate
