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Eric
Nygren
06/08/2010

"A Human Rights Nightmare is Occurring on Our Watch"

By Eric Nygren, ACLU of Washington at 1:07pm

(Originally posted on the ACLU of Washington's blog.)

With 5 percent of the world's population, the United States today boasts 25 percent of its prison population. Despite declining crime rates in the last three decades (even in the midst of our current recession), rates of incarceration in the U.S. have been stunning. The Economist recently called this trend "a disgrace."

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