Reblogged from Under The LobsterScope:

Here are the facts... you make your own conclusion. Personally, I think making prisons a private industry sucks--- I wonder when they'll be exporting the prisoners to China.

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Found this at Under the Lobsterscope -- our incarceration rates form a testament to one of the greatest failures of the U.S. over the past two decades. Live links added here for your convenience.

• Source of the graphic, http://www.onlinecriminaljusticedegree.com/no-justice-for-all/
• New York Times, "U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations" April 23, 2008
• List of incarceration rates by country ("We're #1!)
• Land of the Free: the Best Investigative Reporting on U.S. Prisons (propublica.org)
• Tragedies ... Read the Essay about Jon E. Yount (faktensucher.wordpress.com)
• Why Do We Keep Building Needless Prisons? (alethonews.wordpress.com)

(This may be the last time we use the reblog feature -- it's very clunky!)