Prisoners in America
December 17, 1972 - December 20, 1972
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Forty years before the current outcry over the imbalanced imprisonment of minorities, the 1972 Assembly  considered the U.S. criminal justice system and new ways to deal with crime and criminals.  In the long run, it claimed, a successful program of crime prevention and control will require a concerted attack on social and economic inequalities and the divisiveness of racial and ethnic conflict.


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