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Eric Holder and Rick Perry have little incommon. America's attorney-general is black, liberal and uses the word"community[k1] "a lot. The governor of Texas is white, conservative andsays "God" a lot. Last month Mr Holder's Justice Department suedTexas for allegedly trying to make it harder for blacks to vote. Last year MrPerry ran to unseat Mr Holder's boss, Barack Obama.
On one thing, however, the two men agree. On August 12th Mr Holdersaid, "Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law-enforcement[k2] reason." He then unveiled reforms to reduce the number of people sent to America's overcrowded federal prisons. In this, hewas following the perfectly-coiffed Texan's lead. Several years ago, Mr Perry enacted similar reforms in the Lone Star State, and they worked.
America has the world's largest prison population. China, which hasmore than four times as many people and nobody's idea of a lenient judiciary,comes a distant second[k3] .One in 107 American adults was behind bars in2011, the highest rate in the world, and one in every 34 was under "correctional supervision", either locked up or on probationor parole. [k4] Ablack man in America is 3.6 times more likely to be incarcerated than a black man in 1993 in South Africa, just before apartheid ended.
Granted, the number of Americans under lock and key has fallen since 2008, but only from 2.31 million to 2.24 million. And thatslight dip comes after a mammoth rise[k5] ,between 1980 and 2008, the number of incarcerated Americans more than tripled.
[k1]Community 在这些情况下能直接代替people, 1.all the people who live in a particular area, country: local community, international community (= all the countries of the world). 2.a group of people who share the same religion, race, job, etc: the farming community 3.community的另外用法:community spirit,community parks/libraries
[k2]有连字符为adj,department of law enforcement,Law enforcementagency,law enforcement officers,law - enforcement system [k3]这个用在小作文 [k4]这个结构不错,我很喜欢一个句子然后,and 在一个句子的结构。同时还有同位语。 Either, or 的句型
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