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The US imprisons more of its population than almost any other nation, a phenomenon known as ?mass incarceration.? Of the 2 million incarcerated Americans, more than 157?000 are held by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the largest corrections agency in the nation....

Mass incarceration is a sociostructural driver of profound health inequalities in the United States. The political and economic forces underpinning mass incarceration are deeply rooted in centuries of the enslavement of people of African descent and the genocide and displacement of Indigenous people and is...

Between 1993 and 2013, the number of state prison inmates in this country who are age 55 years or older increased approximately fourfold. Nearly 1 in 10 individuals incarcerated in U.S. prisons is serving a life sentence. If current trends hold, it is projected that by 2030 the number of...