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So how is this working out for us? via: Wired Magazine: Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons, by Vince Beiser (09/21/2009)

By Gardiner Harris, New York Times Dr. Carmona said drafts of surgeon general reports on global health and prison health were still being debated by the administration. The global health report was never approved, Dr. Carmona said, because he refused to sprinkle the report with glowing references to the efforts of the Bush administration. “The