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Saturday, June 13, 2015

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We Spend Billions to Keep Half a Million Unconvicted People Behind Bars


Inmate in jail. (photo: Getty)At any given time, roughly 480,000 people sit in America's local jails awaiting their day in court, according an estimate by the International Centre for Prison Studiesa research group based in England. These are people who have been charged with a crime, but not convicted. They remain innocent in the eyes of the law.

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