HISTORY 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Angela Davis, Supermax Prison, Sith
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The prison is considered so natural that it is extremely hard to imagine life without it. According to a recent study, there may be twice as many people suffering from mental illness who are in jails and prisons than there are in all psychiatric hospitals in the us combined. (10) Us population in general is less than five percent of the world"s total, whereas more than twenty percent of the world"s combined prison population can be claimed by the us (11) And as the us prison system expanded, so did corporate involvement in construction, provision of goods and services, and use of prison labor. The prison boost in ca - people wanted to believe that prisons would not only reduce crime, they would also provide jobs and stimulate economic development in out-of-the-way places (15) We tend to think of prison as disconnected from our own lives (15)
