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The US locks up a higher percentage of its population than anybody else. The government at all levels has simply stuck its nose into too many things.
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A misleading and useless statistic that does not give support to the conclusion following.
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useless to this thread, but not misleading. Most of the books that I've read on the prison industrial complex show similar stats, the U.S. does in fact have the largest prison population in the world, even more than communist china. U.S. has 300 million people total, China has 1.3 billion. That alone should mean something. The U.S. has a little over 2 million currently in jail and over HALF of them are in prison for NON-violent drug crimes, China has around 1.5 million in prison...remember also that China doesn't have the humanitarian laws that we do, they can and do lock people up for reasoned dissent.