it's no surprise that the United States incarcerate more people than any other
country in the world but
if you look at the newest the test takes I think some other findings are pretty
jarring
in fact we have six point nine million people in the United States that are
either in prison on parole
or on probation so let me know the exact numbers
other number people in prison or parole or on probation that's
6.9 million Americans exceeds the populations
the second and third largest cities at Los Angeles Chicago combined
or the size of the next four Houston Philadelphia Phoenix and San Antonio put
together
another number of different reasons why this is the case there's the emergence
private prisons of course we lock away non-violent drug offenders
we also now detainment and
basically at imprison undocumented immigrants before we deport them so
there's this ridiculous argument about how old are using up our resources
but then why do we imprison them for years to come and then deport them we do
it so for-profit prisons can make money off a bit
I love and so we have all these non-violent people behind bars and all
our tax dollars are majority of our tax dollars
majority is not right but a significant amount of our tax dollars go toward
incarcerating them
so 38 US states are home to fewer
people then live under the correction system in this country so there's this
me 38 states have fewer than seven million people me it just does numbers
are staggering it's like we have 15
Tuesday them yeah I know and two of them were just about you guys in prison
or again on probation or parole sodom
it so and and like what at the drug war was the impetus the privatization of
prisons plays a role now totally curious as to what the percentages that are
ultimately there there that are in private prisons could they obviously
have a much bigger incentive than the state me
the state you would think has an incentive to get the people out
right and have them not come back but we're still at the point where ways what
are the numbers were how quickly the recidivism rate but all the recidivism
rate
is we got that right that's so great yeah I didn't work for professionals but
the recidivism rate is really high in the United States I mean you have some
states like California where the recidivism rate is about 60 percent now
you're shown
sorry sorry RBS sixty percent in california alone and I think that %uh
the
average in the united states is around 50 percent so
up there's really an incentive for these for-profit prisons to
have a high recidivism rate because they want to ensure that they have a steady
flow
love inmates and by the way I mean some people are you hey that's private
enterprise but
you it's not really private because public money gets funneled
into these private prisons in the whole argument is that the private prisons
help save money
but there have been numerous studies done that show that that's not the case
because they get to cherry-pick
the type %uh inmates they bring in and usually they have these contracts that
have
that had like a clause and it's a minimum occupancy costs right and it
says
ninety percent of our bed need to be full and if they're not
the state still have to pay for the empty beds this number has just ended
its so dumb
it's so at the the problem with the the private the I'm sure that's all
well that's all true in the nothing good about a private prison
nothing good about a private prison mom but the
notion that like once a state write a check to the private prison company the
car wash their hands on it
you think state the delivery seeing the expense that they have to pay for every
prison
for every make would be issued reducing those
and get the guys who are dangers society out at the at a jail
and then engage as a state in engaging in a process the train them getting a
proper job
job training so we dramatically reduce the odds that we're gonna see him again
because it benefits all of us if we go out and they work yeah and it all really
goes back to
how we lost our priorities when it comes to
our justice system because you know of course there's the element of punishment
but then there's supposed to be that element rehabilitation but we've
completely abandon that notion now we focus primarily
on keeping them in a cell in a lot of cases abusing these people
to the point where they do become hardened criminals after they've been
incarcerated for nonviolent crime
now if you break it down by race the the numbers are even more
shopping in jarring so a 135 are under some form a correctional supervision
up and that's all people in general but if you look at
race are likely to spend time in prison in the US
one out of three black males in this country are likely to spend time behind
bars and
when it comes to hispanics it's one at a sex when it comes to white males
it's one out of 25 we will again %um
not mailed 13
yet one in three if you're black you're
very likely to end up behind bars your
and then you know and there are people around the country who that innovative
ways to serve fix this problem and and we just tend not to look at them
and you know and for a long time you politically with the good news is that
it's significant news i think is that politically is this is no longer crazy
thing to talk about
because in my lifetime in the eighties and much in the nineties you talked
about
man we let them he's got a present Mike this is crazy
a you would have been seen a soft on crime and and willing to pose a threat
innocent young virginal white women and children across this country
that so that conversation mad even if you like never brought race and do it
baby like
we should probably open the doors to suppress is it like guys or danger up
because the disease the theory was if you're in prison you're dangerous
didn't break wooden I the drugs are dangerous and that eliminated the fact
that did you know I marijuana at all or just as dangerous as the other
and now we can at least have a normal guy wins were close to being able to
have a normal conversation
and I'm just guessing that 60 the 6.9 million Americans I don't know exactly
what the number are is but Lee
you know half for them are on lead always argued there's a huge chunk of
people who are you playing right now that art non-violent its it's because
the drug offenses
look I think prison should be you know reserved for people who have murdered
quick assaulted whoever wrong any type of violent crime mean that's the whole
point workers and you want to keep people
for it are a threat to society out of society until their rehabilitation I
just pilot threat but like the non non-violent rather mean you know the
Liberty made of threat to the world right Wall Street bankers in
dog but I mean guys who steal if you gave you you take something doesn't
belong to you
right but using drugs for yourself or your friends
to mine tomorrow we talking about yeah if there's a victimless crime
its that person should be sent to prison that person should be rehabilitated it's
that simple I don't want prostitutes
behind bars I don't want drug users behind bars
I don't know if we don't want undocumented immigrants behind bars
because I goes against the entire argument that they're using up our
resources why we go spend tax dollars to keep them in prison for a few years
before deporting them it doesn't make any sense and that we didn't really do
that
until for-profit prisons started working with Alec
to lobby government to make sure that we detain them for as long as we can before
we deport them so
its all about profiteering it's all about money it's not about
rehabilitating people and that's where justice system right now so screwed up