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When communities become economically dependent on mass incarceration

The town council wants to close the prison because it is expensive but half the people here work there and we do not know what would happen to our economy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Local survival becomes tied to the perpetuation of human caging.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mass incarceration — causes and critique?”

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