incarceration

Land of the Free?
Land of the Free?
Land of the Free?
If you haven't noticed, the "Land of the Free" has long since ceased to exist. A recent article in Reason magazine, cited a chart that was compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative that clearly shows the United States of America far and away leading the rest of the world in rates of incarceration with 716 citizens per 100,000 locked up.  No. 2 is Cuba (510 per 100,000) followed by Rwanda