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5000 Years of Prisons: From Debt to Mass Incarceration
Where did the idea of locking people up come from? This episode traces the full 5,000-year history of imprisonment — from ancient Mesopotamian debt prisons and Roman holding cells, through the reform movements of the 18th century that accidentally created the penitentiary, to today's global incarceration data. We cover which countries lock up the most people per capita (spoiler: the US is no longer #1), how policy drove America's 1,150% prison population increase between 1970 and 2008, and which nations are actively moving away from incarceration as a punishment. Episode 3136 —…
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