CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS August 18, 2013 14:28:00
Sounds too good to be true? well, listen in. for many years, the united states has had a growing problem in its criminal justice system. as i've pointed out before, we are number one in the world when it comes to incarceration, by far. in 2009, for example, for every 100,000 citizens, 760 americans were in prison. that was five times the rate of incarceration in britain, eight times the rate in germany and south korea and 12 times the rate in japan. it began about 40 years ago. in 1970 state prisons had a combined total of 174,000 inmates. by 2009, they had 1.4 million, an eightfold increase. ...