But the growth in American prisons in the 1970s, and the harms that prisons impose on incarcerated people’s health, families and livelihoods, occurred at a rate that had no historical or international precedent.
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Jens Ludwig,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, and millions of livelihoods have vanished.
—
Daniel R. Depetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Apr. 2025
Just like in all professions, people know each other.
—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
19 Dec. 2024
Being a taxi or ambulance driver won't automatically protect against developing Alzheimer's disease or dying from it but frequent behaviors within those professions could reveal information about preventing the illness.
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