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-=== Reasons and Causes ===
+=== Roots of Mass Imprisonment ===
-Research by The Sentencing Project (Mauer, 1991) observed that America's high rate of incarceration was due to both a high admission rate (the percentage of convicted offenders who receive a prison sentence) and longer length of stay (resulting from longer sentences).
+#Increase in drug related inmates because of (1) expanding drug market, (2) pro-active anti-drug policies, (3) counterproductive results of kingpin-strategy (DEA)
+#High admission rate (percentage of offenders receiving a prison sentence) and longer length of stay (resulting from longer sentences)  - The Sentencing Project; ;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_prison_sentences List of longest prison sentences]
-Popularity of excessive sentence: see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_prison_sentences List of longest prison sentences]
+#Sentencing Guidelines; harsh legislation (death penalty states from 10 to 33), penal populism
+#Sociology of punitiveness: social control of the economically useless masses (=dangerous classes)
-Drugs
+#How Can a Public Tolerate It? Normative Preponderance (clawback)
-Just Deserts
-Economically Useless Masses
-Destitute Prison Conditions
-Power Structures and Conflicts
-Massacres
-How Can a Public Tolerate It? Normative Preponderance
-Clawback
 == Violence ==