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A recent audiobook narration for a book titled FIXING THE AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

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English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

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North American (General)

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fixing the American criminal justice system. Pull break Author of The Price of Justice. Cops aren't such bad Guys. The Great National Divides in American Justice. Chapter one. A National Shame, Our Criminal Justice System. One out of 32 Americans, approximately 7.2 million adults As of this writing is on probation, on parole or in prison at any given time in what has been described as the prison industrial complex. Approximately 2.3 million Americans are in prison, nearly one in 100 adults. We have 5% of the world's population yet 25% of the world's prisons. Ours is the highest rate of incarceration in the world, higher than Russia, China or Iran, eight times higher than the rate in Germany and eight times higher than we had ourselves 30 years ago. Who was watching? Not us, to most of us prisons are invisible. As Eugene Jarecki pointed out on a 2012 Charlie Rose program, the public is largely unaware of the prison situation because prisons are located in rural areas and the prison population is relatively powerless. It's enormously expensive to incarcerate so many people. The cost of incarceration, parole and probation in the corrections industry amounts to over $70 billion annually. This is a much as the food stamp program state governments, air strapped and increasingly concerned with the cost of incarcerating so many. The Republican governor of my state, opted not to build a new prison and instead is sending inmates toe a neighboring state, saving approximately $70 million in the process. How did we get to this point? The Della Terrians effects of the war on drugs, As Eugene directly pointed out on the after mention Charlie Rose program. Even employees in the criminal justice system such as cops, judges and prison guards recognize that the drug war is not getting anywhere. The drug war is taking money from budgets that could be better spent elsewhere.