Before decided to move to other states please be very aware of the prison statistics there. The benefits might be great, but at what cost??! Heads up family Mother Jones magazine did an exhaustive analysis of the incarceration rates in the USA, and their statistics, taken from various federal and international sources, show a frightening picture of this nation as a locked down nation for a large segment of their population. The US is number one, as we love to say, in incarceration of its citizens; we are only seconded by Russia. This means that the US has two million of its citizens in federal and state prisons and jails. And the gross unfairness of this system is that the vast majority of those in prisons are nonwhite citizens. That, of course, is no surprise; we all know how criminal nonwhites are in America. Some interesting aspects of this study of prison statistics are these: California, which has the sixth largest economy in the world, (including its Silicon Valley), and a population that is 52% nonwhite, and is supposedly on the cutting edge of racial and social tolerance, has a prison population that is 69% nonwhite. And, of course, with a Black population that is only 7%, it has a prison population that is 32% Black. And this large population of Black inmates has helped this enlightened state to be the sixth state in incarceration rates. While California is enlightened, its prison growth rate places it 18 among the states in prison spending; most of those in prison are there for drug offenses—selling and using; California is rated number three among the states for incarcerating drug offenders and 45th among the states in spending on education. And among states that have a large racial disparity between those who are incarcerated and their numbers in society, California ranks 47th, so there are other states that are more vicious to their Black minority populations than California. gibbsmagazine/blacks_in_prisons.htm
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:32:52 +0000
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