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Study Shows Increasing Incarceration Has Diminishing Returns

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge | By Amy Jeffries
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.

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Amy started her career in public radio at WNPR in Hartford, CT more than a decade ago. NPR flew her in to Baton Rouge to help WRKF cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while she was still based in the North. Here she found her journalistic calling.

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