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US justice reform stalls

US criminal justice reformers have projects and publicity. But the absurdly high prison population is barely falling.
by Chase Madar
The United States is having a “moment” of criminal justice reform. There are conferences of non-profit lawyers, prosecutors and police chiefs, academic experts and the occasional celebrity, promoting a bipartisan consensus that the US incarceration rate — the highest in the world — should be (...)

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