Description More than 2 million persons occupy America\'s prisons and jails today -- the highest per capita incarceration rate in U.
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At what social cost do we build and fill more prisons? In Good Punishment? James Samuel Logan critiques the American obsession with Imprisonment as punishment, calling it -retributive degradation- of the incarcer.
With just 6 percent of the world\'s population, the United States now holds 25 percent of its prisoners. history.
Description More than 2 million persons occupy America\'s prisons and jails today -- the highest per capita incarceration rate in U.
S