Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Locked-Up In America

Prison Nation Update - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime: "More essential reading from Adam Liptak -- the lead paragraph says it all:

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners..."

2 comments:

billy pilgrim said...

and the more current economic policies hurt the poor, the more crime there will be. it's a vicious circle.

do the private prisons have a lobby group?

Bob Harrison said...

Yep. Their lobbyists are the entire GOP.