"There are more people behind bars in the United States today than ever before. Since 1980, the inmate population has more than quadrupled to two million -- an unprecedented explosion that is incurring unprecedented costs to all Americans."This is on MotherJones.com and is an excellent compilation of articles and facts about prisons. Most definitely worth the read. This is something that both Canada and the United States need to critically examine. Also, take a look at the increasing incarceration rates, the spending, and the unreal racial disparities between the general population and prison populations in the "INCARCERATION ATLAS."
Subjects include:
How We Got to Two Million - How did the Land of the Free become the world's leading jailer?
Incubating Disease - Prisons are ripe with infectious illnesses -- and threaten to spread them to the public.
Bad Investment - Gary Johnson, Republican governor of New Mexico, on why the war on drugs is a waste of money.
What's the Alternative? - Society has to respond to lawbreakers, but it doesn't always have to lock them up.
Breeding Violence - Locking people up is supposed to make our streets safer, but it may be doing the opposite.
Left Behind - Hundreds of thousands of children have a parent behind bars. What are the social costs of their loss? ***Definitely read this one
Liberty and Justice for Some - Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. on the moral costs of mass incarceration.
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