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Bruce Western

Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, is author of Punishment and Inequality in America.

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Prisons may have reduced crime a little in the short run, but at the current scale the negative effects of incarceration are likely to outweigh the positive.

Bruce Western

Reversing mass imprisonment.

Bruce Western

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