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Philadelphia: A Messed-Up Justice System

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Karen Heller: A messed-up justice system By Karen Heller Philadelphia Inquirer "If the United States leads the world in incarceration," says civil-rights lawyer David Rudovsky, "Philadelphia leads the United States." We have a higher percentage of our citizens in prison than anybody else, 3.5 times more than New York City. We're No. 1! We've won the inmate championship. And our prize is the chance to spend $230 million on prisons every year. This is one business we should be doing everything to unload.Prisoners are a growth industry. "Booming," says prison commissioner Lou Giorla. It's not hard to see why. When so many of the city's population are woefully uneducated - almost 30 percent lack high-school degrees - decent jobs are hard to come by...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).