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On AlterNet: incarceration rates

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "incarceration rates"

America's Gulag Just Keeps Growing

America's Gulag Just Keeps Growing

Ethan Nadelmann, AlterNet. April 25, 2008.
The U.S. dwarfs the rest of the world when it comes to locking up its citizens, due in large part to madness of our incarceration policies.

America Has Become Incarceration Nation

America Has Become Incarceration Nation

Marc Mauer, TomPaine.com. December 22, 2006.
The United States has now become the world leader in its rate of incarceration, locking up its citizens at 5-8 times the rate of other industrialized nations.