California builds more prisons while other states close theirs

Bob Morris on Oct 6, 2011, 2:01 pm

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For a state that’s supposed to be a progressive leader, California sure does like to build prisons, lots of them too. Thirteen prison and jail expansion projects are currently in progress, with more coming, all due to AB 900 in 2007 which authorized over $7.4 billion for construction and expansion in California’s extensive [...]

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Milk not Jails

Dave Buccola on Jan 23, 2011, 2:45 pm

It’s a bit ironic that the purveyor of “Freedom and Democracy” around the world incarcerates more people per capita than any nation on the planet. The staggering growth of the prison industrial complex over the past thirty years is mind boggling, and yet there is still no serious movement challenging this draconian method of [...]

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US has highest incarceration rate in world

Bob Morris on May 17, 2009, 5:45 am

Pew study

One in every 31 U.S. adults is in the corrections system, which includes jail, prison, probation and supervision, more than double the rate of a quarter century ago

The United States has the highest incarceration rate and the biggest prison population of any country in the world, according to figures from the U.S. [...]

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