Incarceration Nation USA has a larger prison population than about 50 other countries have people.

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Incarceration Nation USA has a larger prison population than about 50 other countries have people.
Civil Liberties
Popular Resistance / By Rosa Brooks
December 26, 2013
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/statistics-americas-incarceration-nation
Imagine If America's Incarcerated Population Were Its Own Country -- Revealing the Disturbing Statistics
A closer look at America's incarceration nation.

You already know that the United States locks up a higher percentage of its population than any other country in the world. If you look at local, state and federal prison and jail populations, the United States currently incarcerates more than 2.4 million people, a figure that constitutes roughly 25 percent of the total incarcerated population of the entire world.

A population of 2.4 million is a lot – enough, in fact, to fill up a good-sized country. If the incarcerated population of the United States constituted a nation-state, what kind of country would it be?

Here’s a profile of Incarceration Nation:

Population size: As a country – as opposed to a prison system – Incarceration Nation is on the small side. Nonetheless, a population of 2.4 million is perfectly respectable: Incarceration Nation has a larger population than about 50 other countries, including Namibia, Qatar, Gambia, Bahrain and Iceland.

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1. k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t

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2. It's free labor for corporations nt

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3. :(

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