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The Exile Nation Project
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- Created: Friday, 08 April 2011 12:32
- Published: Friday, 08 April 2011 12:32
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The American use of punishment is so pervasive, and so disproportionate, that even the conservative magazine, The Economist, declared in 2010, 'never in the civilized world have so many been locked up for so little.'
This collection of testimonials from criminal offenders, family members, and experts on America's criminal justice system puts a human face on the millions of Americans subjugated by the US Government's 40 year, one trillion dollar social catastrophe: The War on Drugs; a failed policy underscored by fear, politics, racial prejudice and intolerance in a public atmosphere of 'out of sight, out of mind.'
