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DamianTV
01-09-2015, 08:28 PM
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-09/prison-state-america-more-jails-colleges


As we recently noted, The Prison State of America is alive and well as our prison-industrial complex, which holds 2.3 million prisoners, or 25 percent of the world’s prison population, makes money by keeping prisons full. While the statistics are mind-boggling, we thought it particularly ironic that on the day when President Obama officially launched his "free community-college for all" plan, that we point out there are more jails than colleges in America... and here's where they live...

As The Washington Post shows,

It's often been remarked that our national incarceration rate of 707 adults per every 100,000 residents is the highest in the world, by a huge margin.

We tend to focus less on where we're putting all those people. But the 2010 Census tallied the location of every adult and juvenile prisoner in the United States. If we were to put them all on a map, this is what they would look like:

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2015/01/20150109_jail.jpg

(Full Article on Link)

What a suprise. Only, not really a suprise at all.

ThePaleoLibertarian
01-09-2015, 08:52 PM
The prison system is probably the most criminally overlooked issue in America today. It's corrupt from top to bottom, and needs a complete overhaul. I'm definitely not one of those bleeding-heart criminal apologists; I know just how dangerous some people can be, and unlike a lot of ancaps I do think prisons for the most dangerous people are a necessity. The idea that social ostracism can address all criminals has always been a big failing that anarcho-capitalism needs to address. That being said, the prison-industrial complex is a toxic, horrendous thing that needs to be destroyed completely.

PaulConventionWV
01-09-2015, 08:55 PM
Maybe that's what Obama meant when he said he wanted students to have 2 free years of "community college."

HOLLYWOOD
01-09-2015, 08:58 PM
POLICE-PRISON STATE

This country has turned to crap and the United States of Idiocracy deserves everything they're getting.

Anti Federalist
01-10-2015, 12:01 AM
God bless Amerikaaaaa...

Slave Mentality
01-10-2015, 06:20 AM
They hate us because our freedoms!

tod evans
01-10-2015, 06:29 AM
More Jails Than Colleges

Which one is more heavily subsidized?