Why is it, for example, that the U.S., which has 6 percent of the world’s population, incarcerates 25 percent of the worlds’ prisoners? We currently have some 3.2 million persons in…prisons. We spend more money building and maintaining prisons than public schools—to the tune of $50 billion a year… No other democratic nation today imprisons people on such a scale or for as long as the U.S. Yet what are we accomplishing?
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Tobias Winright (via azspot)
Making more people to put in prisons?
(via robot-heart-politics) (via asprettyasasong)
The overincarceration of American citizens is one of the greatest tragedies of the United States. Yet no one talks about it much, which is disgraceful.
