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By
Dawn Ivory
Among the sobering stats about America's prisonmania kept by the Coalition for Federal Sentencing Reform: number of prisons built from 1900 to 1980, 41-- number built from 1980 to 1995, 38;
the percentage of prisoners in 1994 sentenced for non-violent crime, 92; average length of sentence served by prisoners with nonviolent records, no involvement in sophisticated criminal activity and no prior jail time, 5.75 years.
To find out more about our burgeoning police state, check out www.sentencing.org
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