The United States confines more people per capita than any other equivalent industrialized, democratic country. It is also one of the last remaining such nations to practice capital punishment, and one of only a handful of countries anywhere that executes juveniles. Sentences are longer in the United States than in ... Read more >
Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities
ISBN: 0-7619-2731-X
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