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Lauren Richey is a photographer for the Columbia Missourian and a reporter for Politifact Missouri. Find her work for her major, photojournalism, in the Columbia Missourian, or on Instagram at Politifact Missouri's account @politifactmo.

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"On our current trajectory, we’ll be 2,000 prison beds short by 2021... We’ll need two new prisons soon, at the cost of $485 million over the next five years."

By Lauren Richey • May 8, 2019

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