1. Three "strikes" and you get life in jail. Even for trivial crimes, Leandro Andrade is serving 2 consecutive life sentences for shoplifting 9 video tapes with a value of $153
2a. 1% of Americans are in jail(2.3million)
2b On a per capita bases this equates to twice as many in South Africans, more than 3 times Iran and 6 times China's prison population.
3. No society in history has imprisoned as many people as America.
4. 1 in 30 men aged 20 - 34 in in prison.
5.1 in 9 black males are in prison.
6. There are more 17 year old black males in prison than in college.
7. 5% of the world are American...25% of all prisoners are American.
8. America prohibits importing goods made through forced labor or prisoners...
YET...
...American prisons produce 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet proof vests,
9. 93% of domestically used paints, 36% of home appliances, 21% of office furniture, which allows America to compete with factories in Mexico.
10. You get solitary confinement if you refuse to work!
11. Thus America has successfully reinvented the slave trade.
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how many people went to prison in the bible
As of 30 Aug07 there are 1.6 million inmates at any given time in the United States of America.
The AKC doesn't have statistics in their records counting the amount of amstaff registered in America.
12,912 people died in Andersonville Prison of disease, malnutrition and many other causes.
Every year, over 600,000 people enter prison gates, but people go to jail 10.6 million times each year. -BrainQuiz
Nearly 128,000 people, or one of every 11 offenders in state and federal prisons, are serving life sentences, according to the study released yesterday by The Sentencing Project, a Washington-based group that promotes alternatives to prison. In 1992, 70,000 people had life sentences.
He was sent to prison for the rest of his life.You house can sometimes be a prison too.The prison guard knocked the rude prisoner's teeth out.
It's estimated that approximately 9 million people currently struggle with a prescription drug addiction in America. As far as how many people throughout the world, I have no idea. Sorry!
As one of the big give orchestras in America, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has many different people playing in it. Currently, the number of people in it exceeds over 100.
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