Monday, August 22, 2005

Riker’s Island; New York Neighborhood

It’s a fitting image for the U.S. prison system overall. In 1969, there were 150,000 individuals incarcerated. By 2001, that number had mushroomed to 2.1 million. That’s 7 out of every 1,000 U.S. residents, a higher rate of incarceration than any other nation in the world, a ignoble distinction previously held by Russia.

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