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"6.7 million people under correctional supervision in 2015...more than were enslaved in antebellum America and more than resided in the Gulag Archipelago at the

"6.7 million people under correctional supervision in 2015...more than were enslaved in antebellum America and more than resided in the Gulag Archipelago at the height of Stalin’s misrule" Woah. How many thanks to the for-profit prison industry?

jcranmer 9y ago
Minimum sentencing and the three-strikes policy are probably more to blame.
- djsumdog 9y ago
  Which are lobbied for by the for-profit prison industry and police/prison guard unions.