The US is World's Leading Jailer

[Sophree]

Great website I found:

"Incarceration rates of the last twenty years have made the United States the world's leading jailer. The U.S. imprisons its citizens at rates three to ten times higher than other democratic societies. Punitive drug laws enacted in the 1980s, and to the present, have resulted in 25% of all prisoners in the United States serving time for a drug law violation. In the federal system, these people make up about 60% of the prison population.

Many states, struggling to balance their budgets, are beginning to release drug war and other nonviolent prisoners early. Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is growing faster than any state prison system in the country.

Launched autumn of 2002, Journey for Justice is traveling the continental United States to highlight these troubling facts about our federal justice system, and calling on citizens to assist in reforming both state and federal drug laws.

http://www.journeyforjustice.org/

Spread the word if you care about justice and freedom!

Edited to change subject header.