![]() Nearly two-thirds of the inmates released every year return to prison crippling discrimination in employment and housing encumbers the ones who manage to function. prisons are dangerously overcrowded, house 10 times as many mentally ill individuals as state hospitals, keep people locked up for unfathomably long periods of time, are plagued by inmate abuse and hold a far greater percentage of the country's black population than South Africa did under apartheid. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world: It has only 5% of the world's population, but one-quarter of its prisoners. ![]() The darkest manifestation of American exceptionalism may be its prison system. ![]()
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