The War on Drugs has been a huge success. No one can get illegal drugs anymore. Right?
Tag: Prisons
LAND OF THE FREE?
Hat tip Boston Bob
Chart of the Day – America’s Prison Population Over the Past 100 Years
There are 2.3 million Americans in prison or jail. The U.S. has 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of its prisoners. One in three black men can expect to spend time in prison. There are 2.7 million minors with an incarcerated parent. The imprisonment rate has grown by more than 400 percent since 1970.
Recent research suggests that incarceration has lost its potency. A report released this week from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law finds that increased incarceration has had a very limited effect on crime over the past two and a half decades.
– From today’s Five-Thrity-Eight article: The Imprisoner’s Dilemma
The sickening and absurd rate of incarceration in these United States has been a frequent topic of conversation here at Liberty Blitzkrieg over the years (links at the end). In our national insanity, the U.S. has only 5% of the worlds population, yet 25% of its prisoners. Many of these people have no business being locked in a cage to begin with, and are wasting their lives away for committing “victimless crimes,” i.e. for no good reason.
While the immorality of locking up so many of our fellow citizens for non-crimes should be readily apparent, today’s article from Five-Thirty-Eight offers evidence that America’s incarceration rate has become so saturated that it has absolutely no meaningful impact in lowering crimes rates anyway. The time for prison reform and the elimination of mandatory minimum sentences is long overdue.
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THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOM
In 1960 the incarceration rate in the United States was 153 per 100,000. Today it is 716 per 100,000. After 50 years of the War on Poverty, this is what we’ve accomplished. You might be interested to know the incarceration rate of black males is 4,347 per 100,000.
More than 2.4 million people are behind bars in the United States today, either awaiting trial or serving a sentence. That’s more than the combined population of 15 states, all but three U.S. cities, and the U.S. armed forces. They’re scattered throughout a constellation of 102 federal prisons, 1,719 state prisons, 2,259 juvenile facilities, 3,283 local jails, and many more military, immigration, territorial, and Indian Country facilities.
IS THE U.S. TURNING INTO A POLICE STATE?
WAR ON DRUGS IS LOST – TIME TO SURRENDER
The Do gooders in this country love wars.
War on Poverty
War on Drugs
War on Terrorism
Now the War on Guns
What could possibly go wrong?
Enough already!!!!