USA leads the world in prisoner population: What does this tell you?

[R_P_A_S]

Q: What does this say about A) The Capitalist system in place here in the United States & B) The notion about being "The land of the free."


“The model is, if you build it they will come,” said Daniel D’Amico, a professor of economics at Loyola University New Orleans. “Because we have all these prisons and all of these other resources funneled into our criminal justice system, we have this ability to enforce things that would otherwise be unenforceable.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-15/u-s-jails-more-people-than-any-other-country-chart-of-the-day.html

[redstarradical]

That capitalism requires some form of a slave labor force / cheapo and disposable labor.

[LiberationTheologist]

There is unlikely to be an overthrow of the US government without ending the drug war. The role it plays is in oppressing the population is too critical.