Author explains how the U.S. has become the No. 1 country where freedom fails to ring
The irony of our criminal justice system is that our “land of the free” locks up more of its people than any other country.
As such, it’s an outlier in industrialized democracies. The U.K., for example, locks up a fifth of the number, per capita, that the U.S. And, as most readers already know, the African-American incarceration rate is much higher than that of whites – in 2012, almost 3 percent of black people in the U.S. saw the inside of a prison cell.
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