{"id":3439,"date":"2013-06-14T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:14","slug":"almost-1-in-100-jailed-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/almost-1-in-100-jailed-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 1 in 100 jailed in US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a few quotes and visuals to help us see what the United States’ almost 1% incarceration rate looks like \u2013 a phenomenon the ACLU condemns<\/a>in its new report Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The imprisonment of human beings at record levels is both a moral failure and an economic one …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"US<\/a>refers to the reality that 750 people out of each 100,000 residents in the United States are being jailed. In mathematic terms, that equates to .0075% of our population (3\/4 of a percentage point) meaning that it comes way too close to being 1% of our population (1 person out of every 100).<\/p>\n

@lawforchange<\/a> says the United States incarceration rate is 5 times the world average. Although Americans are taught to think of Russia as a politically oppressive country, it lags behind us in 2nd place, jailing only 660 of their people per 100,000 (.0066%).
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\"Incarceration<\/a>
How incarceration looks in US<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

By the way, Blacks and Latinos represent 60% of US inmates, or about 2\/3 of the total prison population. And 91% of those prisoners are men.<\/p>\n

\"Incarceration<\/a>
Incarceration rates around world graph.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Incarceration<\/a>
Incarceration rates around the world<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a few quotes and visuals to help us see what the United States’ almost 1% incarceration rate looks like \u2013 a phenomenon the ACLU condemnsin its new report Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration. The imprisonment of human beings at record levels is both a moral failure and an economic one … <\/p>\n

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