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New Study Finds Mass Incarceration Impacts Over Half of U.S. Families
by Steve Horn
A new survey-based report published by a multi-university team of researchers, predominantly from Cornell University and FWD.us, a group of advocates for criminal justice and immigration reform, has revealed that over half of all families in the United States have been impacted by mass incarceration.
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