OPINION America likes to put its citizens behind bars. Indeed, “Lock her (or him) up!” is second only to chants of “We’re number one!” in America. Turns out, America leads the world - by a wide margin - in matters of incarceration. As you read this, just under 2.4 million people are locked up across America...in 1,833 state prisons, 110 federal prisons, 1,772 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,134 local jails, 218 immigration detention facilities and 80 Indian Country jails...and a smattering of military prisons, state psychiatric hospitals and territorial prisons. Putting folks behind bars is as American as apple pie and baseball. Incarceration is a woven fabric in the crazy-quilt culture that believes in both forgiveness and retribution. Puritanical Americans have never been reticent to punish their fellow citizens...and not just for violent crimes.