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Nursing homes with razor wire: Are elderly prisoners really a threat to public safety?

By David Fathi

Sometime in the 1970s, the United States began a love affair with incarceration that continues to this day. After holding nearly steady for decades, our prison population began to climb as criminal justice policy took a sharply punitive turn, with the massive criminalization of drug use, "three ...

 

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