The United States Has More People In Jail Than High School Teachers

lpanda

America has become a gigantic gulag over the past few decades and most of its citizens don’t know, or just don’t care. One of the primary causes of the over incarceration in the U.S. is the absurd, tragic failure that is the “war on drugs”, and indeed nearly half of the folks in prison are there for drug related offenses. Making matters worse is a rapidly growing private prison system, which adds a profit motive to the equation. Recently, I wrote an extensive rant against the private prison system and provided details on how it works in:  A Deep Look into the Shady World of the Private Prison Industry.

Now here are some of the sad facts. There are 1.57 million people in federal and state prison (does not even include county and local jail) according to the Department of Justice. That’s above the nation’s 1.53 million engineers and 1.05 million high school teachers.



More from the Huffington Post:

If sitting in a prison cell was a job, it would be one of the most common jobs in the United States. In 2012, there were some1,570,000 inmates in state and federal prisons in the U.S., according to data from the Justice Department.

By contrast, there were about 1,530,000 engineers in America last year, 815,000 construction workers, and 1 million high school teachers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

There were also 750,000 car technicians.
Yep, you know it. USA! USA!

Full article here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20 ... tion_n_4214626.html

midas

应该都跟太多法律太多律师有关。早就两千多年前，老子谈过这个问题。太多法律会产生太多罪犯。圣经只有十诫。美国的法律太多，靠法律吃饭的律师太多。罪犯多肯定是这些机制的衍生品。

历代总统的一半以上都是律师出身。一百多万律师。即每300个人有一个律师。跟罪犯差不多的数据。法律和律师和罪犯盛产的国家。立国的时候的法律精神都被乱用和糟蹋了。