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America Has a bigger prison population than Totalitarian China With Over A Billion People
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 59851160:MV8yNTg3NDM1XzQ1MTE2Mzk3Xzc0NUQzRDA3] [quote:Anonymous Coward 42470820:MV8yNTg3NDM1XzQ1MTEzNjMzX0I4Q0EyMzRE] The US arrests too many people, has too many prisoners, too many parasite lawyers, too many abc agencies, too many militarized cops, etc... Stopping the criminalization of people for drugs would be a good start to fixing things. [/quote] The Government would save itself lots of money if it could cut the criminal legal employment support system. Starting with judges, lawyers, policing force, the administrative staff and the prison population. However, these professional law enforcement people would intentionally facilitate crime to maintain their job security...hey, I can feel them...that's the real world. For example: when goverment start seriously thinking about cutting defense spending, then next week in the news you would hear about wars breaking out all over the globe. They have to keep the money flowing through the pipelines. Hey, I understand job security. [/quote]
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Happy Fourth of July, Incarceration Nation!
BY HANNA KOZLOWSKA JULY 3, 2014 - 10:22 PM
Today many Americans are flipping burgers, knocking back beer, and setting off fireworks to celebrate their country's most trumpeted value: freedom. But a disproportionate part of the population will be denied that privilege, locked up in overcrowded prisons and jails, thousands without the hope of ever attending another cookout.
Many American prisoners are locked up for good reason, but no other nation jails so many people for so long. Among countries with the world's largest prison populations, the United States leads with 2.2 million behind bars. And the countries that immediately trail the global champion of freedom are either much larger or terrible human rights offenders. China comes in second, Russia third.
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