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Sending a teenager to jail costs more than it would to send him to Eton College, the private boarding school in England that educated Princes William and Harry.

United States, a country with a proud history of limited government, is so unquestioningly generous when it comes to this particular public service, on which it blows $80 billion a year. Does it really need to lock up five times as many people per capita as Britain, six times as many as Canada, and nine times as many as Germany?