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By Carey L. Biron

The United States has incarcerated far more people than any other country, today imprisoning some 716 people out of every 100,000.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33849.htm



When the Rule of Force Replaces the Rule of Law

By Dave Hodges

The similarities between the old Soviet Gulags and the American prison system are stunning.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33851.htm



Black men get longer prison sentences

Prison sentences of black men were nearly 20% longer than those of white men for similar crimes in recent years, an analysis by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found.

http://is.gd/fGHlVa



Incarceration Rate For African-Americans Now Six Times The National Average

By RT

The incarceration rate for American-Americans is so high that young black men without a high school diploma are more likely to go to jail than to find a job.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34053.htm



Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons

By Deborah Davies

Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm



America Never Really Ended Slavery

By Jazz Hayden

The 13th Amendment states, ''involuntary servitude and slavery is abolished except for those duly convicted of a crime.'' The ''exception clause'' leaves slavery still in effect for those convicted of crimes. Today America, with 5% of the world s population, has 25% of the world s prisoners.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34111.htm



The Shame of America s Gulag

By Chris Hedges

If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, ''the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons'' then we are a nation of barbarians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34334.htm


From Information Clearing House

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ACLU: New Report Blames Failed Policies For 790% Jump in Federal Prison Population
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/02/15

Profiting From Human Misery
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/18

US: A Nation of Inmates?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/02/20-1

The Shame of America s Gulag
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/18-0

The Graphic Retelling of Race to Incarcerate
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/03/25-0

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Prison as social control and cheap labor
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-prison-industrial-complex/guilty-until-proven-rich.html



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