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Marc
Mauer
Testimony
on
Comparative
International
Rates
of
Incarceration
6/20/03
Marc Mauer, assistant director
of The Sentencing Project, is delivering testimony on Friday, June 20 to
the US Commission on Civil Rights on "Comparative International Rates of
Incarceration: An Examination of Causes and Trends," examining the
dramatic rise in incarceration in the US over the past thirty years and
documents that these developments are due in large part to changes in policy,
and not crime rates, over this period.
Visit http://www.sentencingproject.org/june/usccr-incarceration.pdf
to read the testimony online.
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Issue #292, 6/20/03
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Newsbrief:
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Teen
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Testimony on Comparative International Rates of Incarceration |
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