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Kyra Hill

Kyra Hill is currently working as a Civic Fellow at the Close Up Foundation. She attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida where she studied criminology. Prior to working at Close Up, she conducted research on child literacy and its connection to criminality in adulthood and on food and housing insecurity among university students.

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Civil Rights & Individual Liberties

The 13th Amendment, Crime Legislation, and America’s High Incarceration Rate

May 08, 2024

Today, 25 percent of the world’s documented prison population is incarcerated in the United States. Despite America being the land of the free, there are more recorded prisoners here than in any other country: 2,068,800. So, how did the United States get here? Over the last 40 years, numerous factors have contributed to the dramatic […]