The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 25% of its prisoners.

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San Jose Mercury News

The state Assembly's Democratic so-called leadership proved Thursday that even that record-low approval rating is probably much too high by wimping out on reforming an overcrowded, overly expensive and unmanageable prison system ( Read more... )

California spends $49,000 a year on each prisoner, almost twice the national average. But it still has the country’s worst rate of recidivism, with 70% of people who leave prison ending up back in it, compared with 40% in America as a whole.

-- EconomistThe latest motto of the California Legislature. It's so catchy, it's being adopted by the US ( Read more... )

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