America read it and weep

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Your justice system. This is outstanding. Land of the free incarcerated

Watch the video

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34655025

Gone fishing

[Amazon 7]

Zep

Your justice system. This is outstanding. Land of the free incarcerated

Watch the video

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34655025

Corporate prisons and budgets require bodies.... there is no incentive to ever let them out.

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Zep

Your justice system. This is outstanding. Land of the free incarcerated

Watch the video

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34655025

Another example of Britts causing problems for Americans

Conspiracy theory A: Democrats set it up because they needed to inflate their gun violence numbers

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I heard about this on the news today. Along with the whole 'Serial' case it staggers me that people can be kept in prison when there is overwhelming evidence of their innocence, or at very least very little evidence of their guilt.

I wonder how many others have been incarcerated and then forgotten in similar cases...

CJP

CJP

Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

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Iago

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Your justice system. This is outstanding. Land of the free incarcerated

Watch the video

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34655025

Corporate prisons and budgets require bodies.... there is no incentive to ever let them out.

Yep- they get paid per head per day.

This is a major reason why it has taken the US so long to decriminalize drugs. I believe prisons should be for violent offenses.


Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), incorporated in Maryland and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, is the largest owner of for-profit prisons and immigration detention facilities in the United States. The only larger operators of such facilities are “the federal government and three states,” according to CCA. [1] It is publicly traded in the United States (NYSE: CXW) and had approximately 15,400 employees in 2013.[2] In 2013, CCA was converted into a real estate investment trust (REIT), which will help the company avoid tens of millions of dollars in corporate taxes.[3][4] CCA's revenue in 2013 was nearly $1.7 billion, and it had profits of $300 million, 100 percent of which came from taxpayers via government contracts.[2]

Since its founding in 1983, CCA has profited from federal and state policies that have led to a dramatic rise in incarceration and detention in the United States -- a rise of 500 percent over the past thirty years.[5][6][7] As of 2011, around half of all prisoners in state facilities were there for nonviolent crimes, and half of inmates in federal prisons were serving time for drug-related offenses.[8]

Prison cells are a product
They are not alone. The law enforcement union is a very powerful lobbying force that would see significant reduction in workforce/members if drug and minor offence laws were relaxed and prison populations reduced.