LINK Secular Programming Supports America’s Inmates - TheHumanist.com
According to the Prison Policy Initiative’s 2018 report, the US criminal justice system holds nearly 2.3 million people (of the nation’s total 329 million total people) in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 1,852 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails, and eighty Indian Country jails along with military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the US territories. Indeed, it’s a widely known fact that the United States incarcerates a larger share of its population than any other country.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Good article. Just another example of hypocrisy and lies of the 'help' religion provides to people in the community. And we have a serious prison problem in the USA, not just the system itself, which is a joke, but the mental, financial, and emotional push toward it in low income communities.
jondspen
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Sep 12, 2018
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Prisons are a necessary evil. That said, way to many are incarcerated when they don't need to be. Part of the problem is the privatization of prisons. There's profit in everyone we lock up.
rogueflyer
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Aug 25, 2018
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There is a better way...than putting this many people in prison. This is another way to make money off the backs of the poor...the uneducated and the mentally ill.
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