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$100,000 Per Year to Lock up a Cheese Thief? The Perverse Logic of "Three Strikes"

Sasha Abramsky, Comment Is Free. February 25, 2010.

That a man with unpaid-for cheese in his underwear could ever have faced essentially the same sentence as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is an absurdity.

Why Are we Keeping Old Ladies Locked Up in Prison?

Viji Sundaram, New America Media. February 10, 2009.

Nonviolent and medically neglected, elderly prisoners in California routinely die horrible deaths.

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