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Get Out of Jail

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That's the title of an editorial in today's Houston Chronicle, subtitled, "Too many Americans, especially those who reside in Harris County, are behind bars."ACCORDING to data maintained by the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College London, the United States has 2.3 million people behind bars ? more than any other country. China, with four times the population, imprisons only 1.6 million criminals (not counting hundreds of thousands of political prisoners). The U.S. incarceration rate, 751 prisoners per 100,000 in population, is about six times the median rate for other countries. In few places is this appalling and embarrassing condition more manifest than in Texas, which has the second-highest number of prisoners behind California, and the second-highest incarceration rate behind Louisiana...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 09, 2008 (boomark / email).