With just 4.4 percent of the global population the United States has over twenty percent of the worlds population of prisoners. Why? The US has turned the prison system into a business. The US ranks number 79 in violent crimes, of all the nations on Earth. Right now there are about one million six hundred thousand US citizens incarcerated.
These numbers are represented by poor white men, black and latino men. Many of these prisoners have not had a fair trial. This is criminal behavior by local, state and the federal government. We must put an end to these crimes against our citizens.
Link: "The Sentencing Project" See what's been going on for 50 years os mass incarceration.
I will add more to this as I do more research.
DT
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