Mara breathed out. The projector kept tracing its frames like a patient cartographer. The film—this artifact where unnamed hands had stitched together moments—had a feature the real world sometimes refused: it allowed re-taking. You could stop and retake a conversation; you could go back to a place where you had been ashamed and say something different. The ledger was not a policebook of guilt but an index of what mattered. The crossing out could be an unburdening.

The state-level population increased by roughly 6,300 inmates, which more than offset the federal decline. Demographic Shifts: Female Prisoners:

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For the first time since 1980, the federal prison population decreased, dropping by 1,900 inmates (0.9%). State Prisons:

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