What Republicans Believe: Prison 'reform'

Source:  Renewing American Values (Republican Platform 2016)

This is why American's prison system is broken.  (Business Insider, 9/27/2015)

• 1 in 100 American adults are incarcerated.
• U.S. percentage of world population is 5%; U.S. percentage of prisoners is about 22%
• 70%:  The chance that an African-American man without a high school diploma will be imprisoned by his mid-30s.
• $88,000 is the cost per year to house one juvenile in a detention center
• 40% is the amount that earnings drop after serving time in prison
• Minorities comprise 60% of U.S. prison population (compared to 38.4% of total U.S. population
• More than 40 states charge inmates for room and during jail and prison stays
• Nearly half of all inmates in federal prisons have been convicted of a drug offense
• U.S. prison population had quadrupled since 1980.

Related article:

Reducing Mass Incarceration Requires Far-Reaching Reforms.  (urban.org)
Not glib statements are "renewing American values".

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