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Deep Impact: Quantifying the Effect of Prison Expansion in the South

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Justice Policy Institute

While prisons have multiplied across the United States, the results have been especially dramatic in the South. Today, 97,000 people live in Charleston, 362,000 in Miami, and 485,000 in New Orleans. But towering above these cities are the approximately 560,000 who live inside Southern prisons and jails in the 12-state region from Louisiana to Virginia.

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