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Captive Market
Why we won't get prison reform
Ames, Michael Publisher: Harper's
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
The American prison system isn't broken; it's working exactly as designed. Seven million people may find their lives constrained, but according to the metrics that make America hum, their time served is also value added. Critics who mistake mass incarceration for a failure of social justice are oblivious to a stronger governing principle: Criminal justice is a business, and business is good.
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