Holy Crap! Why is so much of the US population in prison!? Both relative to other ‘basically well-functioning advanced capitalist democracies’:
(This from Crooked Timber post)
And relative to the the US of 25 years ago:
(from Martin Sereno’s presentation on Peak Oil.)
While we’re at it, here’s another slide which Sereno labelled ‘the beginning of corporate planet’.
(of course, although some would like it to be, what’s true for the US isn’t necessarily true for the rest of the planet)