<![CDATA[Onward and Ever Upward -- But Not in a Good Way]]>

1.0 link 108382 <![CDATA[Onward and Ever Upward -- But Not in a Good Way]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-fellner/onward-and-ever-upward_b_108382.html NEW YORK -- Two new federal reports highlight the profound disconnect in the United States between crime and punishment.

According to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, the US prison and jail population has now grown to all-time high of 2.3 million. The United States not only incarcerates the greatest number of people in the world, it also incarcerates at the highest rate: last year 762 out of every 100,000 people in the United States were behind bars, a rate five...

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