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Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better by Maya Schenwar
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It was closely connected to the role it occupies in larger society: Incarceration serves as the default answer to many of the worst social problems plaguing this country—not because it solves them, but because it buries them.
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