Jail-birds often receive high fines, and adding to their debt might just encourage more crime.

囚犯经常支付高额罚款，增加他们的负债会导致更多的犯罪。

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Yet over the past decade crime has fallen, as the number of people in jail has soared.

过去十年来，虽然犯罪活动减少了，但监狱人数却一路飙升。

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Ms Sharmila, who has been serially arrested for trying to kill herself-a crime carrying a maximum one-year jail term in india-is an image of their suffering.

由于试图自杀而多次被捕(在印度，自杀罪最高可判处一年徒刑)的沙尔米拉正是一幅反应曼尼·普尔人遭受苦难的人物肖像。

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Inexplicably, they point to falling crime rates, not as evidence that keeping criminals locked away in jail prevents crime, but as proof that imprisoning offenders is unnecessary.

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