The US prison population today - from World Clock -2,362,740.816

[malaise]

http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks/worldclock/

The number went up by eight while I was typing -this is nearly the number of the entire population of Jamaica

[HopeHoops]

1. I wonder who the 0.816th of a person is.

[Capitalocracy]

4. Sucks to be that guy. nt

[charlie and algernon]

5. It's the one-armed man of course

[sarcasmo]

2. #1

USA! USA! USA!

[Uncle Joe]

3. That puts the U.S. prison population at aproximately 300,000 over the state of New Mexico

and closing in on Nevada.

Our prison nation would be the 36-37 most populous state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population

Of course more people are behind bars here in the "land of the free and home of the brave" than any other nation on the planet and I have no doubt the tolerance of an immoral for profit prison industry greatly influences this number.

The notion that here in the aformentioned "land of the free" an industry should profit from imprisoning the American People and cannabis be illegal is Alice in Wonderland logic.

Thanks for the thread, malaise.

[malaise]

6. It's frightening to watch the numbers rise

by the minute