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6. But these numbers are really only part of the problem...

Reply to ProSense (Reply #5)

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 06:28 PM

Dec 2011

because once you get out of prison, you can't get a job with a criminal record. Regardless of what you do, you are relegated to lower class society for life. If you could add up the current prison population and the number of people essentially "dead to society" because they have a criminal record, the human cost is truly staggering.

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1 out of every 100 Americans are in Prison. [View all] aaaaaa5a Dec 2011 OP

Let's get more precise frazzled Dec 2011 #1

Assuming the facts in the video are true aaaaaa5a Dec 2011 #2

+10000000000000000000000000 Liberal_in_LA Dec 2011 #8

100,000 Americans become felons every year tabasco Dec 2011 #3

They are cycled into the military industrial complex.... aaaaaa5a Dec 2011 #4

And ProSense Dec 2011 #5

But these numbers are really only part of the problem... aaaaaa5a Dec 2011 #6

True. n/t ProSense Dec 2011 #16

Its not a British TV show about American prisons dipsydoodle Dec 2011 #7

Thank you for the correction. I have edited the OP. NT aaaaaa5a Dec 2011 #10

I wasn't having a go at you dipsydoodle Dec 2011 #13

Oh.. please it was no problem at all.... aaaaaa5a Dec 2011 #14

British quiz\comedy shows are more factual than our news. provis99 Dec 2011 #11

Isn't it sad in our society... aaaaaa5a Dec 2011 #12

You bet. dipsydoodle Dec 2011 #17

Authoritarian win. ZombieHorde Dec 2011 #9

The program the clip is from is Qi (which stands for Quite Interesting) A British trivia show. Mac1949 Dec 2011 #15

Do you know what dipsydoodle Dec 2011 #20

Marvelous program, though I liked it better when Frankie Boyle was on. Mac1949 Dec 2011 #26

Try going back to where it all began here with "That Was The Week That Was" in 1962 dipsydoodle Dec 2011 #28

TW3 was an excellent series, and I'm well acquainted with the Black and White Minstrel Show. Mac1949 Dec 2011 #29

The Goons dipsydoodle Dec 2011 #31

One of my favorites as well. Mac1949 Dec 2011 #32

So 1% of Americans are in prison... 3waygeek Dec 2011 #18

So sad... aaaaaa5a Dec 2011 #22

This has been true for a long time killbotfactory Dec 2011 #19

China has fewer prisoners because of on-the-spot executions. Zalatix Dec 2011 #30

That's not true at all, we have a staggeringly large prison population killbotfactory Dec 2011 #34

China keeps its execution numbers secret Zalatix Dec 2011 #35

I used estimates from Human Rights Watch. killbotfactory Dec 2011 #36

They have become labor camps for corporations. Hmmmmmm.... nt stillwaiting Dec 2011 #21

Prisons are very profitable. aaaaaa5a Dec 2011 #23

Indeed it is. It's disgusting we as a society have let them get away with it. nt stillwaiting Dec 2011 #24

The for profit prison system will make this % even higher in the next decade. sarcasmo Dec 2011 #25

crime pays for the privatized prison corporations spanone Dec 2011 #27

And the problem could be... greytdemocrat Dec 2011 #33