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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.
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.