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    How poverty and mental illness are putting more people behind bars
    How poverty and mental illness are putting more people behind bars
    How poverty and mental illness are putting more people behind bars
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    How poverty and mental illness are putting more people behind bars

    Written by PBS NewsHour

    Narrated by PBS NewsHour

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    About this audiobook

    More Americans than ever before are spending time in jail despite a drop in the crime rate in the past two decades. That's according to a new report that also found that a disproportionate number of people in jail suffer from mental illness. Judy Woodruff discusses the findings with Nicholas Turner of the Vera Institute of Justice and Margo Schlanger of the University of Michigan.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewsHour Productions
    Release dateFeb 16, 2015
    ISBN9781987108330
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