I hate crime as much as the next person, but when you look at the facts, it’s just not possible that 1 out of every 100 Americans deserve to be in jail. When you stop to examine our current prison system, it’s very clear that problems like racism and slavery still exist in “the land of the free.”
No society in history has imprisoned more of it’s citizens than the United States.
As English comedian Jimmy Carr points out, it’s rather a stupid thing to base a legal system “on baseball.” The 3 strikes law has proven itself to be one of the most unreasonable laws in the US simply because grown men can go to jail for life for stealing cookies or videotapes.
Perhaps the most shocking statistics stated in this video were the facts that 1 in 9 black males are in jail and that 1 in 4 of all prisoners on a global scale are American. Unbelievable!
