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Re:First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts r... by TrackerFF on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:12AM (#22179034)
IIRC, the main culprit of the awful incarceration rates were mandatory minimum sentencing / sentencing policies that were introduced in the 80s.

I guess it was a result of the "tough on crime" attitude that came after the 70s, and came just in time for the drug epidemics, and war on drugs.

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