America the land of the free has the highest number of prisoners In a recent article in the New York Times, it was reported that the United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. The US has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation. China, which is four times more populous than the United States , is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison. Criminologists point to higher levels of violent crime, harsher sentences, racial turmoil, consumption of drugs, the American temperament and the lack of a social safety net, as factors behind the burgeoning prison population. Whilst these reasons may be contributing factors they are certainly not the root causes. The underlying cause is America ’s freedom and democracy, which no politician or legal expert is prepared to admit. And wherever, America has exported its version of ‘freedom and democracy’ the world has witnessed
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