Prison Population

Jory has blogged a couple times recently about the drastic and rising prison population percentage here in the U.S. You should check the post out if you haven't. I commented there about the U.S. soon just having the poor class be a prison population slaving away for the rich and I don't think that is that dramatic of a speculation. Here's a few more stats that I just got recently from MPP. This situation is deplorable and must change!

"Almost 2.2 million people — or one in every 136 U.S. residents — are behind bars.
In fact, the U.S. has more people in prison for drugs than all Western European counties have in prison for all crimes.
To say this is an outrage would be an understatement. But there's more ...
The incarceration rate of black men in the U.S. is now higher than it ever was during Apartheid in South Africa.
Indeed, almost 12% of black men between the ages of 25 and 29 are currently in prison or jail in the U.S. And, in our nation's capital, fully half of all black men between the ages of 18 and 35 are in jail or otherwise caught up in the criminal justice system.So what’s the solution? In part, we should stop arresting more than 700,000 people annually for marijuana and putting many thousands of them in jail."