Re-educating prisoners

[mrstickball]

NinjaguyDan said:

mrstickball said:

NinjaguyDan said:

5% of the world's population, 25% of the world's prison population...

In the "land of the free" how can that be possible?  Because the U.S. is enthralled by a fucked-up right-wing authoritarian ideology.

Could you define that with measurable evidence? Your spouting a lot of stuff with virtually no statistical backup.

Here's the Wiki, or is that too liberal a source for you?

1981 was the beginning of the authoritarian age.  I was there and watched it happen in real time.

...So on this list, how does it point to authoritarianism and right wingers? Why did it increase so severely under Clinton, and not Bush Jr?

The only argument that can be made for or against authoritarianism causing such an increase would be the rapid increase of incarceration for drug offenders due to the bi-partisan war on drugs which started in the early 70's. Otherwise, I don't see what you are getting at.

Oh, I would mention that the chart also correlates with the rapid plateau and reduction of crime in America: