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June 9th, 2003
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News at 11: American Gulag continues to set new records!

[450,000 prisoners, 1/4th of the prison population, locked up solely because of drug related crime… at $25,000/year (the cost of a good college education including room and board at a premium private university), that is $11,250,000,000 a year. What a waste. -Thomas]

http://www.sunspot.net/news/printedition/bal-te.journal01jun01.story

Locked up in land of the free

Inmates: The United States has surpassed Russia as the nation with the
highest percentage of citizens behind bars.

By Scott Shane
Originally published Jun 1, 2003

With a record-setting 2 million people locked up in American jails and
prisons, the United States has overtaken Russia and has a higher percentage of its
citizens behind bars than any other country.

Those are the latest dreary milestones resulting from a two-decade
imprisonment boom that experts say has probably helped reduce crime but has also created
ballooning costs and stark racial inequities.

[…]

On a per capita basis, according to the best available figures, the United
States has three times more prisoners than Iran, four times more than Poland,
five times more than Tanzania and seven times more than Germany. Maryland has
more citizens in prison and jail (an estimated 35,200) than all of Canada
(31,600), though Canada’s population is six times greater.

[…]

Blumstein says the most rigorous recent studies suggest that about 25 percent
of the drop in crime in recent years resulted from locking up more criminals.
The rest resulted from other factors, among them the ebbing of the crack
cocaine epidemic, changed policing strategies and the strong economy of the 1990s.

[…]

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