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Why does the US have so many people in prison\u20142.3 million Americans at an estimated cost of $80 billion a year?\u00a0Correspondent Tim O\u2019Brien goes to Dearborn County, Indiana, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the US, to see why the country leads the developed world in the number of people serving long prison terms. He also talks to experts on sentencing policy and on how Americans understand justice, retribution, and harsh punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe do have a higher rate of violence\u2014not crime, but a higher rate of violence\u2014than other industrialized nations,\u201d says Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project. “Some of that, our high murder rate, is related to the widespread availability of guns and illegal weapons.” More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":33541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-ethics","topics-law","topics-us-domestic-issues"],"yoast_head":"\nAmerica\u2019s Incarcerated | November 18, 2016 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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