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* More than 5.5 million Americans are incarcerated, …

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In 1971, when a group of citizens formed a pilot program in Northern California and M-2 began matching prisoners with visitors, there were 23,000 inmates in state prisons, according to M-2 statistics. Now, the California Department of Corrections (CDC) cites 158,000. Men and women from every…

Your appetite has set sail for the tropics, but you'…

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There are two very different prisons in Soledad--one minimum security, one maximum; one old, one new--but they share the challenge presented to all prisons these days: trying to accommodate more inmates than their designs anticipated.