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By Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky | AllGov | July 28, 2013

In what some experts say may be the beginning of the end for mass incarceration, the U.S. prison population declined for the third year in a row last year.
In 2012, the prison population shrunk by 1.7% (or 27,770 inmates), according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).

By Jane Slaughter | Labor Notes | July 19, 2013

Detroit hit the Trifecta last week—the third in a series of body blows that politicians have landed on the city’s working people.