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  Thursday   February 28   2002       01: 29 AM

Prisons

American Gulag: Petty criminals doing hard time

The United States has achieved the dubious honor of boasting the largest prison and jail population on Earth. It reached this zenith by surpassing cash- strapped Russia -- long its only rival as a society of mass imprisonment -- after Russia released thousands of inmates so as to save money.
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Surviving Prison in Nevada
How an MBA from California did the time and lived to tell about it

Living in a prison outside of Carson City for three years, Jimmy Lerner gradually learned to block out the whimpering cries of raped teenagers, the buckshot blasts of prison shotguns and the ever-present sense of danger behind bars--emanating from both fellow convicts and prison guards.
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both thanks to The Liberal Arts Mafia


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