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"Since the mid-1970s, the United States has engaged in a "race to incarcerate" that has resulted in a prison population expanded to a level previously unknown in any democratic society" (Burt, 2010). The US has over 2 million of its citizens incarcerated, which accounts for 25% of the world's imprisoned population (Forman, 2011). ................
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