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This year the nation's prisons will release more than 630,000 people--the largest prison exodus in history. That's four times as many as were released in 1980, before crack, before zero tolerance, before truth-in-sentencing policies and before 1.9 million people filled U.S. prisons and jails...
While the country's prisons were growing and multiplying in the 1990s, society's ambitions for them withered. Rehabilitation went out of fashion. America vented its frustration with crime and the drug war by reducing access to in-prison drug-treatment and education programs; outside prisons, the Federal Government dramatically...
The White House is convinced that Pakistan's military is dead serious about finding bin Laden and can be counted on to turn him over to U.S. authorities if he is captured. As many as 60,000 Pakistani troops have been deployed at border checkpoints, partly to take the place...
Stern believes the answer to our current crisis will come from talking to the perpetrators themselves, and she combs prisons and refugee camps for terrorists to see what drives them. "It's vital that somebody be listening," she says. "It's not just a question of solving political conflicts. It...
It's understood that bad things happen in prisons, but we don't generally imagine them happening to students temporarily held there. Hasnain Javed, a Pakistani, was traveling by bus on Sept. 19 from a family reunion in Houston to New York City, where he was studying computer programming at...