The U. S. growth is in part a legacy of laws that mandated harsher sentences or abolished parole, keeping convicts in prison into old age.

美国（老年犯）增长（较慢）一定程度上应归于法律传统，即更加严厉的判决同时取消假释，让囚犯在狱中步入老年。

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One long-term cost of America's love affair with incarceration will be a growing number of ex-convicts with even slimmer chances of finding a job than they had before they went to prison.

ECONOMIST: Out of sight, out of mind