"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005

[Ichingcarpenter]

POLITICAL FACT


According to a Congressional Research Service report, "the number of state and federal adult correctional facilities rose from 1,277 in 1990 to 1,821 in 2005, a 43% increase." That’s an increase of 544 new facilities. There are 5,478 days in a 15-year span, which works out to almost exactly one facility every 10 days on average.

John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham Law School specializing criminal justice and the recent boom in mass incarceration, said Booker’s claim is correct if it includes both types of prisons.

Pflaff said Booker is actually underselling the statistic by not going back to 1984. Between 1984 and 2005, the number of facilities grew by about one every 8.5 days.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/31/cory-booker/was-prison-built-every-10-days-house-fast-growing-/

[Mnemosyne]

1. What a shame and a waste. nt

[madokie]

2. So many people are imprisoned that really don't need to be

and once a person has been in prison they don't have much clout to demand a fair wage or a very good job so the companies that would love to have slaves anyway have a pretty big pool of candidates to pull employees from. I see it as a conspiracy between those who want to profit off the backs of petty criminals, pot smokers etc and the companies I just mentioned.

[Mnemosyne]

4. Right on the nose, madokie! They've been working on having a slave class for awhile now.

[PATRICK]

3. The disastrous Law and Order agenda

that was as badly memed as the perverted Family Values standard.
Now the government has become not only the biggest jailer but the most privileged unpunished criminal.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. America's growth industry. n/t

[Rex]

6. The War on Drugs is actually a crime against human nature.

It never was about 'helping society' stay away from drugs. It was ALWAYS about money and still is all about money. We just love us some authoritarianism! IT is what makes 'Merica 'ceptional donchknow!

[Charles de Gaudless]

7. but, but, but.....

we built six new schools in that 20-year period, you Godless Socialist!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. Good God.

I had not idea it was *that* bad. Thanks for posting this.. I'm sharing it far and wide.

[Hydra]

9. And people actually think we're running out of money

It looks like we just have new priorities now. And people say we can't imprison everyone...