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Race, Incarceration and American Values War and Militarization and the National Book Criticsby Glenn C. Loury MIT Press 9 1 2008, hardcover SKU: 9780262123112 Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans. The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising is almost forty percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and