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One percent of adults are behind bars in America.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) One percent of adults are behind bars in the United States (see the 2008 Pew Charitable Trust report here and a related news article here). Imagine the financial, psychological, and social drain illustrated by such a statistic.  As I have repeatedly said, I do not think we will achieve a fair and just criminal justice system -- including policing, prosecuting, judging, imprisoning, and releasing and supervising on probation and parole -- until people insist on and achieves a radical and positive overhaul of policing and police hiring, training, supervision, and discipline; and of the rest of the criminal justice system, including heavily decriminalizing drugs (and legalizing marijuana), eliminating mandatory minimum sentences, and eliminating criminal penalties for activities as minor as prostitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).