Posted on Sep 14, 2015
LTC Ed Ross
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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.
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The funding of Prisons vs Schools :

1.) The states that spend more money on prisoners than college students
By Christopher Ingraham
July 7, 2016 at 9:40 AM

“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”

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/


2.) Education vs prison costs
http://money.cnn.com/infographic/economy/education-vs-prison-costs/


3.) Report: Increases in Spending on Corrections Far Outpace Education
https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/report-increases-spending-corrections-far-outpace-education
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CPL LaForest Gray
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Prison labor and modern slavery

SOURCE :

https://www.freedomunited.org/prison-labor-and-modern-slavery/


End slavery in the U.S. prison and detention industry

SOURCE :

https://www.freedomunited.org/prison-labor-and-modern-slavery/


April 26, 2017
Legalized Slavery in the United States Implemented Through the “Justice” System

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.

SOURCE :

https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/projects/legalized-slavery-in-the-united-states-implemented-through-the-justice-system/


Democrats introduce legislation to strike slavery exception in 13th Amendment
Tal Axelrod
12/2/2020

SOURCE :

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-introduce-legislation-to-strike-slavery-exception-in-13th-amendment/ar-BB1bzvfy?ocid=sf
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Does the U.S. have more people incarcerated than China?
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LTC Trent Klug
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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!
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SN Greg Wright
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LTC Ed Ross 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.

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2012/us-incarceration.aspx
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LTC Ed Ross
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The China number does not include people on forced labor in labor camps and farms. You can't believe any number provided by the Chinese govt. China is not an open and transparent country.
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SGT David T.
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Moral of the story is that when politicians speak it should be interpreted as the teacher from the Charlie Brown cartoons.
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