December 01, 2025
In 2006 a TV news story about a prison incidentally showed a set of keys. Because that image could theoretically be used to make a new set of keys (potentially for a jailbreak), all of the 11,000 locks in the prison had to be changed.
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Although the total number of incarcerations in the U.S. has declined in recent years—dropping 21 percent from a peak of 2.3 million imprisoned people in 2008—the country still leads the world in mass imprisonment. According to a March 11, 2025 Prison Policy Initiative study, the country’s
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