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Mass incarceration has skyrocketed in the U.S.
Date: 1997
Opioid crisis
Prison Industrial Complex
Drugs & alcohol
The United States is the number one jailer in the world. The number of people behind bars for nonviolent drug law offenses has increased from 50,000 in 1980 to over 400,000 by 1997.
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