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Law

Study Shows Increasing Incarceration Has Diminishing Returns

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge

Published February 20, 2015 at 2:18 AM CST

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Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the world.

The Brennan Center for Justice recently put out a report on the effect of imprisonment on crime. Lauren-Brooke Eisen, one of the authors of the report, walks through some of the findings.