June 18, 2004
Madness in Maximum Security
When scholars get a look inside America's secretive prisons, they find chaosGraphic: Showing the rise in the prison population
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When America's overflowing prisons boil over, or when television shows such as HBO's prison drama Oz presume to portray the grim conditions inside them, members of the public may think they get a picture of what the institutions are like.
Wrong, say criminologists and other social
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