Why aren't you in jail?

[soma17]

America's prisoner population is soaring. Can you believe dat?
America leads the world in population imprisonment with 0.7% of our population behind bars. We're behind China and India - the two most populated countries in the world. India has only 32 people per 100,000 people behind bars.
This begs the question - Why aren't we out sourcing our

Comments

[emerald_aurora]

Actually 1% of the adult population in this country is in prison.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/28cnd-prison.html

Reason #34857345 to end the War on Drugs.

[brian_goodwin]

http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/mar-17-2008