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| America’s Prison System Is A Disaster |
| By mintpressnews.com - Frederick Reese |
| Published: 09/06/2013 |
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By almost every measure, the American prison system is broken. For a nation that claims one in every 20 human beings on Earth, it also claims one in every four prisoners. Approximately one in every 107 American adults is currently behind bars, producing both a rate of incarceration and an actual prison population that outpace any other nation in the world. Within the last 30 years, the prison population more than quadrupled — from roughly 500,000 in 1980 to nearly 2.5 million today. Almost half of all those incarcerated in the United States are Black. On Aug. 28, at the “Let Freedom Ring” celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) — the only surviving speaker from the original march — spoke to the assembled crowd on the inadequacies of the American penal system and the challenges left to be solved in this nation: Read More. |
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