Thursday, August 25, 2011

Number of the Day

$39 billion: The increase in spending on corrections nationally in the US, from $11 billion to more than $50 billion, in the last two decades.

Between the "war on drugs" and for-profit prisons, 1 out of every 100 adults in the US is now incarcerated.

[H/T to @SharkFu.]

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