The U.S. prison population grew tenfold in three decades, to two million.

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When I first became involved in antiprison activism during the late 1960s, I was astounded to learn that there were then close to two hundred thousand people in prison. Had anyone told me that in three decades ten times as many people would be locked away in cages, I would have been absolutely incredulous. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 17

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