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“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in 100 American adults is behind bars.61 Some U.S. states spend as much on their prisons as they do on their universities.”
― Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future