There Are Now More Americans In Jail Than There Were In Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago

There Are Now More Americans In Jail Than There Were In Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 16:49
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Josef Stalin, he would have been proud.

There are now more Americans in jail — 6 million — than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called “Incarceration Nation.” And it’s not just a relative population thing, The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens.

How does that compare to other countries?

It’s 7X-10X as high:

Japan has 63 per 100,000,
Germany has 90 per 100,000
France has 96 per 100,000
South Korea has 97 per 100,000
Britain has 153 per 100,000

And it’s also a relatively new phenomenon: In 1980, the U.S. only had 150 prisoners per 100,000 citizens.

What’s to blame?

FASCISM IS TO BLAME! -Mort


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