{"id":39895,"date":"2011-09-27T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T14:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=39895"},"modified":"2011-11-09T00:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:46:00","slug":"the-u-s-prison-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/27\/the-u-s-prison-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Prison System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamus K. posted this clip from the show <em>QI<\/em>, in which Stephen Fry provides a \u00a03 1\/2 minute primer on the truly stunning statistics about U.S. imprisonment rates:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nPZed8af9RI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Relatedly, Tara B. provided a link to data posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/09\/26\/328486\/us-private-prison-population-lobbying\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a> about the growth in lobbying by private prison operators, who receive contracts to house prisoners; their political contributions nearly tripled between 2002 and 2010:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/lobbyingprisons.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39896\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/lobbyingprisons-500x324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/lobbyingprisons-500x324.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/lobbyingprisons.jpeg 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Private prisons are still a minor, but growing, segment of the U.S. prison system. As of 2009, they housed 8% of all federal and state prisoners:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/prisonchart.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39897\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/prisonchart-500x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/prisonchart-500x217.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/prisonchart.jpeg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more on private prisons and their lobbying efforts, see our earlier post on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/13\/private-prisons-and-the-arizona-anti-immigration-law\/\">the role of Corrections Corporation of America in passage of the Arizona anti-immigration law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamus K. posted this clip from the show QI, in which Stephen Fry provides a \u00a03 1\/2 minute primer on the truly stunning statistics about U.S. imprisonment rates: Relatedly, Tara B. provided a link to data posted at Think Progress about the growth in lobbying by private prison operators, who receive contracts to house prisoners; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,85,285,1760],"class_list":["post-39895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-politics","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41631,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39895\/revisions\/41631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}