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See other Corrupt Government Articles Title: There Are Now More Americans In Jail Than There Were In Stalin's Gulag Archipelago
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Business Insider
URL Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-americans-in-jail-2012-3
Published: Mar 24, 2012
Author: Henry Blodget
Post Date: 2012-03-24 17:12:00 by Hondo68
Keywords: Incarceration Nation, War on Drugs, War on Liberty
Views: 3205
Comments: 6
There are now more Americans in jail -- 6 million -- than there were in Stalin's Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called "Incarceration Nation." And it's not just a relative population thing. The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. How does that compare to other countries? It's 7X-10X as high: - Japan has 63 per 100,000,
- Germany has 90 per 100,000
- France has 96 per 100,000
- South Korea has 97 per 100,000
- Britain has 153 per 100,000
And it's also a relatively new phenomenon: In 1980, the U.S. only had 150 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. What's to blame? The "War on Drugs." More than half of America's 6 million prisoners are in jail for drug convictions, with 80% of those in jail for "possession." By the way, has the "war on drugs" worked? Um, no. There are still drugs everywhere. So, maybe it's time we stopped throwing people in the slammer for possessing them.
“Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today,” writes the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik. “Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America - more than 6 million - than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.” Is this hyperbole? Here are the facts. The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. That’s not just many more than in most other developed countries but seven to 10 times as many. Japan has 63 per 100,000, Germany has 90, France has 96, South Korea has 97, and Britain - with a rate among the highest - has 153.... This wide gap between the U.S. and the rest of the world is relatively recent. In 1980 the U.S.’s prison population was about 150 per 100,000 adults. It has more than quadrupled since then. So something has happened in the past 30 years to push millions of Americans into prison. That something, of course, is the war on drugs. Drug convictions went from 15 inmates per 100,000 adults in 1980 to 148 in 1996, an almost tenfold increase. More than half of America’s federal inmates today are in prison on drug convictions. In 2009 alone, 1.66 million Americans were arrested on drug charges, more than were arrested on assault or larceny charges. And 4 of 5 of those arrests were simply for possession.... Bipartisan forces have created the trend that we see. Conservatives and liberals love to sound tough on crime, and both sides agreed in the 1990s to a wide range of new federal infractions, many of them carrying mandatory sentences for time in state or federal prison. And as always in American politics, there is the money trail. Many state prisons are now run by private companies that have powerful lobbyists in state capitals. These firms can create jobs in places where steady work is rare; in many states, they have also helped create a conveyor belt of cash for prisons from treasuries to outlying counties. Partly as a result, the money that states spend on prisons has risen at six times the rate of spending on higher education in the past 20 years. In 2011, California spent $9.6 billion on prisons vs. $5.7 billion on the UC system and state colleges. Since 1980, California has built one college campus and 21 prisons. A college student costs the state $8,667 per year; a prisoner costs it $45,006 a year. The results are gruesome at every level. We are creating a vast prisoner underclass in this country at huge expense, increasingly unable to function in normal society, all in the name of a war we have already lost....
Poster Comment: Very very profitable for the teachers, police, and correctional officers unions. A smooth transition from school to jail. They really need to clear out the jails to make room for the real criminals, government officials. Too many idiotic "laws". Getting out of bed is a crime nowadays.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
In PHUCKING sane. "All in all just another brick in the wall ..."
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
#3. To: A K A Stone, *Ron Paul for President* (#2)
Should you be able to buy Heroin and Crack at Walmart? Yes. Should we have modX chain you to the bedpost so that you don't?
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
Should you be able to buy Heroin and Crack at Walmart? Yes. Should we have modX chain you to the bedpost so that you don't? What that then does is tells kids that since it is legal it is ok. Bad idea in my opinion.
#5. To: hondo68 (#3)
Should you be able to buy Heroin and Crack at Walmart? Yes. Should we have modX chain you to the bedpost so that you don't? Maybe they should be flogged and then released. That way it is still shown to be wrong and unacceptable. That way they would not be clogging up the jails.
#6. To: A K A Stone, hondo68 (#2)
The world and reality are not binary, they are analog. Nobody said that it would be easy. BUT one thing we do know FOR SURE, what we are "doing" NOW is NOT working, in fact it's making it worse. IF it's fixable, we Americans could fix it if we were given leave and support. But I sure don't claim to know specifically how.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
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