Re:United States incarceration rate
by TomGullen on Sunday June 09, 2013 @01:25PM
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Approaching 1% of your population being incarcerated seems absurd.
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If you rule out kids, it becomes 1% of adults. There was a statistic I saw a few years ago that said that 1 in 9 black men were either incarcerated or on parole - it was the clearest statistic showing lop-sided legal policy I've seen.