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Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.; that's more than were in Stalin's gulags noted journalist Adam Gopnik in 

Kerri will discuss the benefits and repercussions of locking up so many people. Her guests are professor 

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Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.; that's more than were in Stalin's gulags noted journalist Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. 

Why do we lock up so many people? What are the repercussions and benefits?

Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.; that's more than were in Stalin's gulags noted journalist Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. 

Why do we lock up so many people? What are the repercussions and benefits?

Mass incarceration in America

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