In the 1970' there were 300,000 incarcerated Americans. Today there are 2.4 million, making us the highest incarceration rate in the world.

May 26, 2013 · 5:00 AM UTC

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@marwilliamson that statistic says so much reform education "Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." -William Butler Yeats
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@marwilliamson were the prisons privatised in 1970? No? Must be a coincidence. Prison companies wouldn't pay judges based on sentences...
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@marwilliamson Pls. Elaborate on this theme, do you have more information?
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@marwilliamson and the incarcerated and enslaved animals who committed no crimes
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@marwilliamson most because of marijuana
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@marwilliamson what a terrible statistic. Mass incarceration has caused so much damage to our society.