13 Signs That America's Prison System Is Out Of Control

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Since the war on drugs started in 1971, America's prison population has surged 700 percent to 2.4 million.

Prisoners have become part of the economy, manufacturing and assembling products for major corporations, while private prisons have emerged as multi-billion dollar operations.

Now that there are more Americans under correctional supervision than were in Stalin's gulags, it's officially out of control.

The U.S. has 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of the world's prison population

Since the war on drugs started in 1970, America's prison population has surged 700 percent to 2.4 million

There have been more than 40 million arrests for drug-related offenses in the past forty years

Source: The Pew Charitable Trust

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