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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