Ray From Cleveland
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We have always had minorities from third world countries. Many, many more than we have todayBecause the minorities now are also new immigrants. Coming from third world countries and having a hard time adapting to a first world environment.Other nations have poor people who make up most of the prison populationNo other nation has the diversity that we do either. Extract the minorities from our prison system, and what you end up with is similar statistics as other nations.
The very fact that we treat prisoners like hotel guests gives them little fear in being convicted. They have workout rooms, libraries, football fields, three squares a day plus snacks if your family deposits money into your account, and even a little private room where you and your (whatever) can start a family from is hardly a deterrent. Thank your liberal judges for that.
The US has always had a large minority population but our prison population has escalated in the past few decades
You might not have figured this out yet, but if a group of people commit a lot more crimes than other groups, their prison population will be proportionately represented.
Why is our prison population rising so quickly?
We have always had minorities
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But we never had the incarceration rate we have now
We didn't have the drugs we have now either. Gang wars developed because of these drugs. We always had gangs here and there, but most of their issues were territorial. Today, every low income area has these gangs killing each other over drug sales. It's much worse than the Mafia days.