Massachusetts Drug Bill Would Send You to Prison and Steal Your Car, No Drugs Needed! – Oregon Cannabis Connection
Massachusetts Drug Bill Would Send You to Prison and Steal Your Car, No Drugs Needed! – Oregon Cannabis Connection
The US has the second highest incarceration rate in the world (0.72% of the population compared to 0.14% globally, only the Seychelles is higher). The US has the highest prison population in the world with 2.35 million of the 10.35 million people incarcerated globally. The US has 4% of the world's population but has 23% of the world's prisoners, almost one in four. But crime rates around the world have been dropping steadily for about 40 years. According to Human Rights Watch U.S. prisons are mainly filled with nonviolent offenders. US prisons fail to rehabilitate prisoners and many prisoners were worse on release than before incarceration.
The US has private for-profit prisons which are extremely profitable.
"Land of the free" my ass, more like "Land of the greed & home of the slaves".
The US has the second highest incarceration rate in the world (0.72% of the population compared to 0.14% globally, only the Seychelles is higher). The US has the highest prison population in the world with 2.35 million of the 10.35 million people incarcerated globally. The US has 4% of the world's population but has 23% of the world's prisoners, almost one in four. But crime rates around the world have been dropping steadily for about 40 years. According to Human Rights Watch U.S. prisons are mainly filled with nonviolent offenders. US prisons fail to rehabilitate prisoners and many prisoners were worse on release than before incarceration.
The US has private for-profit prisons which are extremely profitable.
"Land of the free" my ass, more like "Land of the greed & home of the slaves".
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