America has a mass incarceration epidemic on its hands. For a half-century, the United States has experienced unsustainable growth in the number of people behind bars, housing far more inmates than any other nation. The problem owes its roots to the conservatism of those in positions of power successfully lobbying to enact restrictive laws and harsh punitive measures to deter behavior that conflicted with their own set of moral principles. In protest to the permissive 1960’s, the American people 更多
