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370,000 Estimated number of mentally ill people currently in U.S. prisons, nearly 1 of 5 inmates
As this is the first case of this kind to come before an appellate court, the Supreme Court set a tasteless precedent for evading the moral and legal canons that forbid executing the insane. The number of mentally deranged convicts that can now be killed will be limited only by...
$400 million Amount requested by the Bush Administration to build two 4,000-bed prisons in Iraq
$112 million Estimated cost of building those two prisons in the U.S.
As Valladares wrote of Cuba’s prisons in his 1986 memoir Against All Hope, “Someday, when the history of all them is known in detail, mankind will feel the revulsion it felt when the crimes of Stalin were brought to light.” Until...