Building the US Gulag one case at a time

For a partial list of political prisoners held in US jails, please check:

The Jericho Movement's list
The Prison Activist Ressource Center's list

Also, for some background info check out this 2002 article:

The Reality of Political Prisoners in the USA (PDF format)

The US police state & prison system - a reminder

FYI -

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2008/04/usa-is-fundamentally-uncivilized.html

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2008/03/meet-american-gulag.html

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2007/09/ahmadinejad-us-big-prison.html

I won't even go into the issues of torture, extraordinary renditions, Guantanamo, Bagram, secret CIA jails worldwide, clearly racist laws, clearly racist sentencing practices, ICE raids, police brutality, deportations, etc. etc. etc.

But the readers who actually live in the USA are more than welcome to add their own anecdotes and observations (as always, please feel free to post anonymously).

The Saker

7.3 million in the US prison system

From ThePeoplesVoice.org:

7.3 million in the US prison system

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/pris-m04.shtml

A study released this week by the Pew Center on the States delivers a staggering statistic: 7.3 million Americans - or 1 in every 31 adults - are in the nation's prison system. This figure includes those in US jails and prisons, on parole, on probation, or under other forms of correctional supervision. No other country comes close to matching this number. If these individuals were grouped together, they would number more than the entire populations of Israel or Honduras, or all of the residents of Washington state.