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    30 Responses ttto incarcerated americans 1920-2006

    1. j_bryon says:
      April 5, 2010 at 12:56 pm

      I feel this increase can be directly linked to two possibly more factors.
      One is the overly PC-ness of the American society in the way children are raised. The saying, “Spare the rod, SPOIL the child” (and get them ready for a life in prison)has never been more true. More could be said on this topic but I think I’ll leave it to the reast of you to add more.

      Another factor is the addition of better police practices across the country as a whole. Say what you want as I’m ready for the flaming.

      Finally, the increase of prison population directly coincides with the election of Reagan and the beginning of the recession of the 80s and the increase in our national debt.

      This is how I feel.

    2. ack says:
      April 7, 2010 at 8:26 am

      Wow. That is a huge surplus of criminals.

      I wonder if they could be refined into some kind of bio-diesel.

    3. PhiPhi says:
      April 7, 2010 at 8:46 am

      I think the increase was women getting out of the home and going off to work.

    4. Dreth says:
      April 7, 2010 at 9:15 am

      It should be Incinerated.

      Keep the scumbags off the streets and the jail cells clean.

    5. Flickerdart says:
      April 7, 2010 at 10:16 am

      I wonder what the statistic is per capita. Because sure there’s a lot more prisoners, but there’s also a lot more people.

    6. Bill Carson says:
      April 7, 2010 at 10:21 am

      Note that the meteoric rise of the prison population coincides with the release of Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall” album in August of 1979. Mere coincidence? I think not!

    7. deuce says:
      April 7, 2010 at 11:46 am

      Thank you Mr. Reagan! Quintupling our prison population by incarcerating drug users has TOTALLY eliminated crime and vice! You were so wise, I can totally see why the right-wing still worships you.

      • Cargen says:
        April 8, 2010 at 6:47 am

        Nixon started the Drug war, using it partly as a distraction for his illegal Pacific war activities, and doubling it up as a money machine. Evil man.

        He even asked a Columbian drug lord to help him in his war in exchange for a infinite cocaine market in america. shows how much he cared.

    8. frogurtx says:
      April 7, 2010 at 12:13 pm

      A more useful chart would be the percentage of US population incarcerated. I don’t know if this chart adjusts for increase in population over time.

    9. frogurtx says:
      April 7, 2010 at 12:13 pm

      also, damn mexicans

    10. Puulaahi says:
      April 7, 2010 at 12:32 pm

      Fixes nothing.

    11. Error401 says:
      April 7, 2010 at 12:46 pm

      Video games. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600
      That shit started eating our brains way back in the day. Drugs were just a coping mechanism for all the stress caused by pacman, missile command and pitfall.

    12. KeithMcConchie says:
      April 7, 2010 at 3:20 pm

      frogurtx

      The chart shows actual numbers of people, therefore is not and does not need to be adjusted for increase in population. It just means you have to do some extra work to get to what you want to see. According to this chart in 1980, the time that drug laws and mandatory sentencing got started, there were slightly less than 0.5 million people incarcerated, and in 2006, that number has jumped to almost 2.5 million. About a 500% increase. Compare that with the 1980 population of about 226 million vs 298 million in 2006, only a 30% jump. About 0.2% vs. 0.8%, still a 400% increase.

      Interestingly many prisons are privatized, so it is in the interest of the companies who run the prisons to have more people in prison, as the governments pay them on a per prisoner basis.

      Population numbers are from Census.gov. Prison populations are approximations gleaned from the chart. I didn’t do any independent research on those.

      BTW – this 2008 Washington Post article puts the percentage at over 1 percent.
      www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022801704.html?sid=ST2008022803016

    13. hvymetal86 says:
      April 7, 2010 at 4:03 pm

      To all in jail: Stop doing bad shit you stupid fucks.

      Thank you. That is all.

    14. Tiggle Bitties says:
      April 7, 2010 at 6:07 pm

      for some stupid fucks bad shit is all they know how to do. otherwise they end up like…

      you know who, eh?

    15. jonblaze81 says:
      April 8, 2010 at 5:18 am

      If you really want to see a starteling statistic, check how many of the above listed prisoners are black. *Note* Me pointing that out does not automaticly make me a racist, it does prove which members of our society are more likely to be involved in crime.

      Makes you wonder what Dr. King would say about the dream coming true in America?

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