Incarceration is big business. According to U.S. Department of Justice statistics from 2014, almost 2.2 million citizens are doing time in federal, state, and county slammers here in the land of the free. That?s a lot of orange jumpsuits and a head count greater than all of the active and reserve U.S. military personnel serving in our armed forces. Whether one considers the root cause to be torn social fabric, economic inequality, or a criminal-justice system on steroids, the cold fact is that the United States has more prisoners­?and a greater proportion of the populace?behind bars than any other nation on the planet. Call it our ?other? 1 percent. Those bitter pills swallowed, we can all agree that law enforcement has its hands full. READ MORE ??
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