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USA Prisons

Are Prisons well kept in USA?

How are convicts treated in Prisons within USA?

Who oversees the penal code for USA Prisons?

Prisons USA

U.N. Chief hails U.S. Plan to release thousands of prisoners:

The United Nations secretary-general welcomed on Wednesday a U.S. Decision to release some 6,000 federal prisoners to ease overcrowding and provide redress for people who had received disproportionately long sentences for non-violent drug-related offenses. Ref. Source 5s

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U.S. Spending on prisons grew at three times rate of school spending: report:

State and local government expenditures grew by 107 percent to $534 billion from $258 billion for elementary and secondary education, while corrections spending rose by 324 percent to $71 billion from $17 billion, the U.S. Department of Education report found. Ref. Source 5w?

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Cost of incarceration in the U.S. More than $1 trillion


The cost of incarceration in the United States exceeds $1 trillion, or six percent of gross domestic product, and dwarfs the amount spent on corrections alone, finds a new study. Ref. Source 8h.

Prisons USA

I am sorry to say that we have people in prison for having a couple of grams of weed, when it is now legal for 10x that much if you have a card which almost anyone can get. The people stuck in prison for outdated rules should get released with time serve. As long as it is for nonviolent crimes. Keeping them in jail just costs us all.

USA Prisons

I agree with Mjvb plus it only makes them worst because they would have gone to from just a minor offense to being in prison with hardened criminals that teach them how to be part of the underworld.

USA Prisons

Prison inmates strike in prisons nationwide over 'slave labor' working conditions:

A nationwide prison strike over conditions and wages behind bars, which organizers tipped to be the biggest of its kind in US history, was under way in at least several correctional facilities across the country on Friday Ref. Source 9w.

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Slavery in the US prison system. If you want to find an example of modern day slavery, look no further than US prisons. Source 7g.