That and some other disturbing statistics from the Harvard Gazette:
While crime rates have fallen 45 percent since 1990, the memo said that the incarceration rate is now at a “historically unprecedented level,” jumping 222 percent between 1980 and 2012. An African-American man who never graduated from high school has a 70 percent likelihood of being imprisoned by his mid-30s; for similarly educated white men, the rate is about 15 percent. And the United States imprisons at a rate six times greater than most peer nations, including those of the European Union, Japan, Israel, and Mexico.
The for-profit prison industry has done irreparable damage to this country and shutting that down is the only way. You can contact your local congressman or woman via this link. It’s not much but it’s something and only takes a couple minutes. If not this issue, then send an e-mail about your issue.
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