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The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. In this edition of The Empire Files on teleSUR, Abby Martin explores the dark reality of US prisons: their conditions, who is warehoused in them and the roots of mass incarceration.
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