1 in Every 136 U.S. Residents Are in Jail
(AND THE PROBLEM IS WHAT EXACTLY?)
by TChris
The latest numbers in Prison Nation reveal a reliance on incarceration that continues unabated.Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.As always, black men are Disproportionately incarcerated. As usual, red states lead the way. (OK TIMEOUT, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN, IF NIGGAS WANT TO COMMIT CRIMES THEY SHOULD MOVE TO A BLUE STATE!? TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE MAP, BETTER BE CAREFUL. I GUESS IN THE RED STATES THERE ARE DIFFERENT SETS OF LAWS FOR NEGROS.) In the 25-29 age group, an estimated 11.9 percent of black men were in prison or jails, compared with 3.9 percent of Hispanic males and 1.7 percent of white males.Overall, 738 people were locked up for every 100,000 residents, compared with a rate of 725 at mid-2004. The states with the highest rates were Louisiana and Georgia, with more than 1 percent of their populations in prison or jail. Rounding out the top five were Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, sums it up: “It’s not a sign of a healthy community when we’ve come to use incarceration at such rates.” (TIME OUT AGAIN! “NOT A SIGN OF A HEALTHY COMMUNITY.” HEY JACKASS IF YOUR COMMUNITY IS CRAWLING WITH CRIMINALS IS THAT HEALTHY? SHIT THIS IS WHY I CAN’T TAKE SOME OF YOU LIBERALS SERIOUSLY)
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