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Can you guess the 'prison Capitol' of the World? (Original Post)
DainBramaged
Feb 2013
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. How gross is that...
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)2. Just disgusting
american exceptionalism my ass
lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts)3. "We're Number one...we're number one"....
The U.S. leads the world in the number of citizens incarcerated... up 800% since Ronald Reagan escalated the War on drugs and mandatory sentences for Minor infractions of drug law.
Hard Assets
(274 posts)4. Fremont County, Colorado
13 prisons in that county alone, including the Florence, Colorado ADMax where all the scumbags live.
had the opportunity to pro-vis AdMax...first time I saw a particulate detector in use..this was late 90's.
dballance
(5,756 posts)5. That's Something for Jindal to Be Proud Of
I'm betting he's renting them out to corporations as laborers at a huge profit - for the corporations, not the state.