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per-capita incarceration rate. The United States now has the highest income inequality in the Western world, the highest incarceration rate in the entire...

600%, leaving it the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world. During this time, incarceration has changed from a punishment reserved primarily...

This rate dwarfs the incarceration rates of the countries that the U.S. usually thinks of as its peers. Indeed, the rate at which the U.S. incarcerates its...

This rate dwarfs the incarceration rates of the countries that the U.S. usually thinks of as its peers. Indeed, the rate at which the U.S. incarcerates its...

that the U.S. ranks 36th in water and sanitation and has the highest incarceration rate in the world. What about education? The Programme for International...

It has the highest incarceration rate by far. It has among the highest child mortality rates. It has the highest youth poverty rate. It has one of the...

and more on public safety programs, and has astronomically higher incarceration rates. These investments in police and prison, however, don’t translate...

incarceration of young men in Latin America, the English speaking Caribbean, the United States, and Europe. In the United States, the incarceration rates...

have merely redesigned it. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010), p. 2 The universal body of the...

having nearly 1,000,000 Black people incarcerated; an unemployment rate more than twice the current White unemployment rate; and an average of less than 1⁄16...

having nearly 1,000,000 Black people incarcerated; an unemployment rate more than twice the current White unemployment rate; and an average of less than 1⁄16...

they’re not kneeling for domestic violence in the NFL. They’ve had a huge rate of domestic violence, intensely physical domestic violence that has become...

access for the state into the homes and families of the poor, and more incarceration of Black and other poor men. Instead of empowering women and the poor...

been possible before or would be possible after. A program of mass incarceration, launched as part of Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs, had landed the great...

two million people in the United States are behind bars, a higher rate of incarceration than any other country in the world, constituting a new Jim Crow...

unemployment and incarcerations, Donohue and Levitt found a statistically significant correlation between high abortion rates and lower crime rates. For example...

of prisons and the financial incentives they create to increase incarceration rates. We oppose the disenfranchisement of felons. We want to “ban the...

three million people behind bars in this country. We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world and isn't this America; liberty, personal...

New-Age Populism, Gets Down to Business". Wall Street Journal.  The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population...

as breeding grounds of infectious disease outbreaks. Detention and incarceration of any kind involves large groups of people living in cohorts in confined...