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Jason Szep
"The rate of people going into U.S. jails and prisons has quadrupled in 25 years, swelled by get-tough policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s and rising by 500,000 in the last 10 years alone when the U.S. national crime rate actually fell.
Almost 10 percent of all inmates in state and federal prisons in 2004 were serving life sentences, up 83 percent from 1992, according to the Sentencing Project."
