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Thanks so much, Sarah. I wrote the book to try to humanize the 2.2M people inside U.S. prisons, and to highlight the reasons for our alarmingly high recidivism rate (~70% re-offend within 3 years. I hope to jump-start the conversation about ways to transform our prisons and halve that sky-high recidivism rate, which would save billions of taxpayer $, dramatically reduce the suffering of...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Prison
A year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis
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Mr. Smith Goes to Prison
A year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis