{"id":1341,"date":"2011-10-26T20:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T00:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/imprisonment-rates-are-higher-in-more-unequal-countries.html"},"modified":"2011-10-26T20:47:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T00:47:56","slug":"imprisonment-rates-are-higher-in-more-unequal-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/imprisonment-rates-are-higher-in-more-unequal-countries.html","title":{"rendered":"Imprisonment rates are higher in more unequal countries"},"content":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s yet another reason the 1% owning and controling everything is\nbad for everyone.\nGuess which country is the most unequal in income of big countries?\nThat&#8217;s right, the one with by far the most prisoners: the U.S.A.\nPrisoners are shown on a log scale, so that&#8217;s not just a little bit higher,\nit&#8217;s about three times higher than Canada or UK.\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6284856732\/in\/photostream\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6043\/6284856732_83bfd3bfd5.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nWhy is the USA so high?\nIt&#8217;s not more crime, of the violent homicide and robbery variety.\nIt&#8217;s harsher sentencing, especially for drug-related crimes.\nThat&#8217;s one of many points Richard Wilkinson makes in this\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cZ7LzE3u7Bw&#038;feature=feedu\">\nTED Talk from July 2011<\/a>,\nin which he uses hard data to tie income inequality not only to imprisonment,\nalso to child conflict, drug abuse, infant mortality,\nlife expectancy, mental illness, obesity, high school dropouts,\nteenage births, and social mobility.\nThe most socially mobile country? Denmark.\nThe least?\nThe USA.\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZ7LzE3u7Bw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\nI got his slides from\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitytrust.org.uk\/resources\/slides\">\nThe Equality Trust.<\/a>\n<p>\nOh yes: we don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia\nto make a few CCA executives and shareholders richer at the expense\nof the rest of us.\nSpend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s yet another reason the 1% owning and controling everything is bad for everyone. Guess which country is the most unequal in income of big countries? That&#8217;s right, the one with by far the most prisoners: the U.S.A. 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