The study from the Pew Research Center’s Economic Mobility Project, released Tuesday, reports that the US prison population has more than quadrupled since 1980, from 500,000 to 2.3 million, making the US’s incarceration rate the highest in the world, beating former champions like Russia and South Africa.
This means more than one in 100 Americans is in prison, and the cost of prisons to states now exceeds $50 billion per year, or one in every 15 state dollars spent — a figure the study describes as “staggering.”
yea its a lot
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ReplyDeleteThat's a hell of a lot of people in prison. A lot of them for "victimless' crimes, like personal drug use.
ReplyDeleteIt's fucking ridiculous
ReplyDeleteit's a really high rate.. =\
ReplyDeletedamn.
ReplyDeletewow, one in 28 is pretty much oO
ReplyDeleteI would be interested to find out how many are incarcerated over petty drug offenses. So many thousands of dollars wasted over parents slingin' pot.
ReplyDeleteThat is an awful lot, although I don't know anyone with parents in prision.
ReplyDeleteevery tax payer is feeding those convicts.
ReplyDeleteim curious how many people go to prison for marijuana
ReplyDeleteMan, never thought about it like that.
ReplyDeleteso much money wasted on those scum.
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ReplyDelete...and around 50% of those are in prison for drug offenses. We have more people locked up than China. Not per capita, either. It's fucking ridiculous.
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ReplyDeletethat is sad, they need good role models
ReplyDeleteAt least our prisons have free healthcare :P
ReplyDeletethats crazy high
ReplyDeletehow many out of 28 are black?
ReplyDeleteHalf of the prisoners are in there for marijuana! End the drug war!
ReplyDeleteouch, depressing statistics
ReplyDeleteNo comment, but i agree... :)
ReplyDeleteWow O.O
ReplyDeleteThats sad
ReplyDeleteAnd someday 1 in 28 kids will be in prison too. I wonder which ones!
ReplyDeleteI heard somewhere that two percent of the population and one third of the black population are in prison in the states, for one simple reason.... the prison systems are privatized and make so much money on free labor, they actually are managing to combat chinese made products these days, filthy bastards
ReplyDeletewhat a sad fact
ReplyDeleteomg... that's impressing!
ReplyDeletethats just sad
ReplyDeleteawh man its trending all right....
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