More on our status as Number One in Incarceration – Jon Stewart

Another few minutes with a comedian. This time it’s Jon Stewart.

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Drop over to the Prison Policy Initiative for an in-depth look at the state of incarceration in America. Especially troubling are the over 400,000 people who are in jail without ever having been tried. As Stewart notes, they are there because they can’t make cash bail. “It seems getting arrested is less about penal code and more about zip code and tax code.”

We’re No. 1!!