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Is This the End of the Mass Incarceration Era?

The Free Press · Aug 26, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC

Contrary to popular belief that our criminal justice system is broken, the United States seems to be experiencing a virtuous cycle in which crime and incarceration decline in tandem, writes Charles Lane.

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