00;"></a>	<h3><b><a href="/rights/45647/">America Has Become Incarceration Nation</a></b></h3>
	<span class="small">Marc Mauer, TomPaine.com. December 22, 2006. [<a href="/rights/45647/?comments#comments">78 total comments</a>]</span><br />
	<span class="xlc">The United States has now become the world leader in its rate of incarceration, locking up its citizens at 5-8 times the rate of other industrialized nations.</span><br clear="all" /></p>
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