The American experiment is a wash.

"..is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.(Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy.)"--Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

It now costs $556K to jail someone in Rikers for a year. And it is still a dangerous hellhole. Think what that amount of money could do to alter the life trajectory of a child.
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