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Paige Harrison, statistician at the Bureau of Statistics at the Department of Justice and author of the report on the population of the US prison system
- on her report on the number of people in the US prison system
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Abu Qadir Al-Amin, associate director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, an organization focused on promoting balanced and humane criminal justice policies that reduce incarceration and promotes long-term public safety
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Marc Mauer, executive director The Sentencing Project , national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration
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David B. Muhlhausen, Ph.D., senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation focusing on criminal justice
- discuss the new report from the Department of Justice on who is in the American prison system