"And keeping prisoners beyond that is extraordinarily expensive, especially as their medical-care costs mount later in life—yet another reason, Austen says, that we need “a carceral system focused not on vengeance and permanent punishment but on the possibility of everybody going home.”These are all reasonable points, likely to resonate with lefty readers who find the very idea of prison abhorre..."
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