LTC Ed Ross964817<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Bernie Sanders says more people are incarcerated in the U.S. than in China. How do you think he knows that? You can't believe any stats the Chinese publicize. I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in China. The Chinese execute and incarcerate far more people than we do.Does the U.S. have more people incarcerated than China?2015-09-14T13:12:53-04:00LTC Ed Ross964817<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Bernie Sanders says more people are incarcerated in the U.S. than in China. How do you think he knows that? You can't believe any stats the Chinese publicize. I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in China. The Chinese execute and incarcerate far more people than we do.Does the U.S. have more people incarcerated than China?2015-09-14T13:12:53-04:002015-09-14T13:12:53-04:00SGT David T.964827<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Moral of the story is that when politicians speak it should be interpreted as the teacher from the Charlie Brown cartoons.Response by SGT David T. made Sep 14 at 2015 1:18 PM2015-09-14T13:18:50-04:002015-09-14T13:18:50-04:00Capt Seid Waddell964856<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All&=Apply">http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All&=Apply</a>Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Sep 14 at 2015 1:31 PM2015-09-14T13:31:16-04:002015-09-14T13:31:16-04:00SN Greg Wright964928<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="687623" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/687623-ltc-ed-ross">LTC Ed Ross</a> It's a simple (and sad) fact that the one of the last few things that the US is #1 in these days is the percentage of it's adult population incarcerated.<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2012/us-incarceration.aspx">http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2012/us-incarceration.aspx</a>Response by SN Greg Wright made Sep 14 at 2015 1:59 PM2015-09-14T13:59:26-04:002015-09-14T13:59:26-04:00LTC Trent Klug966235<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Our numbers are transparent and accurate. Funny how a country the killed over 60 millioon of its own citizens from WW2' through the end of the cultural revolution would be lionized by a socialist in the US Senate. Calling Captain Reneault! Bring me my shocked face!Response by LTC Trent Klug made Sep 15 at 2015 1:57 AM2015-09-15T01:57:28-04:002015-09-15T01:57:28-04:00CPL LaForest Gray7132996<div class="images-v2-count-1"><div class="content-picture image-v2-number-1" id="image-615223"> <div class="social_icons social-buttons-on-image">
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Response by CPL LaForest Gray made Jul 25 at 2021 6:55 PM2021-07-25T18:55:25-04:002021-07-25T18:55:25-04:00CPL LaForest Gray7132999<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Prison labor and modern slavery<br /><br />SOURCE : <br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="https://www.freedomunited.org/prison-labor-and-modern-slavery/">https://www.freedomunited.org/prison-labor-and-modern-slavery/</a><br /><br /><br />End slavery in the U.S. prison and detention industry<br /><br />SOURCE :<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="https://www.freedomunited.org/prison-labor-and-modern-slavery/">https://www.freedomunited.org/prison-labor-and-modern-slavery/</a><br /><br /><br />April 26, 2017<br />Legalized Slavery in the United States Implemented Through the “Justice” System<br /><br />by Courtney McGinn, an LLM student at Texas Law, concentrating in Human Rights and Comparative Constitutional Law, and member of the 2016-2017 Working Paper Series Editorial Committee.<br /><br />SOURCE : <br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/projects/legalized-slavery-in-the-united-states-implemented-through-the-justice-system/">https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/projects/legalized-slavery-in-the-united-states-implemented-through-the-justice-system/</a><br /><br /><br />Democrats introduce legislation to strike slavery exception in 13th Amendment<br />Tal Axelrod<br />12/2/2020<br /><br />SOURCE : <br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-introduce-legislation-to-strike-slavery-exception-in-13th-amendment/ar-BB1bzvfy?ocid=sf">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-introduce-legislation-to-strike-slavery-exception-in-13th-amendment/ar-BB1bzvfy?ocid=sf</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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Response by CPL LaForest Gray made Jul 25 at 2021 6:56 PM2021-07-25T18:56:33-04:002021-07-25T18:56:33-04:00CPL LaForest Gray7133005<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The funding of Prisons vs Schools :<br /><br />1.) The states that spend more money on prisoners than college students<br />By Christopher Ingraham<br />July 7, 2016 at 9:40 AM<br /><br />“Prison spending is still a fraction of overall pre-K through 12 education spending: States spend $71 billion on prisons and $534 billion on schools each year. But that combined state and local prison budget is now over an eighth the size of the school budget.Jul 7, 2016”<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/07/the-states-that-spend-more-money-on-prisoners-than-college-students/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/07/the-states-that-spend-more-money-on-prisoners-than-college-students/</a><br /><br /><br />2.) Education vs prison costs<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://money.cnn.com/infographic/economy/education-vs-prison-costs/">http://money.cnn.com/infographic/economy/education-vs-prison-costs/</a><br /><br /><br />3.) Report: Increases in Spending on Corrections Far Outpace Education<br /><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/report-increases-spending-corrections-far-outpace-education">https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/report-increases-spending-corrections-far-outpace-education</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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