See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Passover 38/120
Dear Friends,
This message is to deal with the serious social catastrophe that is the USA. It is the most dysfunctional society the world has ever seen and there is no use pretending that it is not. I have gone year after year and watched the flag waving and the militarism and the blatant dishonesty of the banks and the ministry and the hypocrisy of the politicians and the corruption at every level of society. It is spreading all over the world and the English speaking people in Australia/NZ and UK and Canada are adopting the sheer blatant dishonesty of the banksters of the US and London and now all over the Commonwealth.
Even Church Authorities have been found to be less than honest in their dealings with their people for money and the people love to have it so and they bring their lies to the Commonwealth and deceive our people also. The two fundamental lies under the WCG and the offshoots were the Hillel Jewish calendar and the Ditheist Godhead introduced by Armstrong into the Churches of God. They know these doctrines are lies and some even admit they are lies to their brethren who are awake up to them and are on the verge of leaving. Some of the offshoots such as the UCG have at least five different versions of the Nature of God and cannot agree. LCG has at least two versions and cannot agree either but has less variation. It is this fundamental capacity to lie to each other that is at the bottom of the dysfunction and hypocrisy of the US system and like the proverbial cat they are dragging it into our homes like dead rats. They got the lies about the calendar from the Jews in the same way their banking system was corrupted by the wealthy of their system.
Their religious system was also based on the lies of the Trinitarian system that followed the Sabbatarians there and their religious system was corrupted everywhere. What they have is the great Whore that came from the whore and Mother of Harlots in Rome but fragmented in a system of harlot daughters and liars and those who lied to their people on a continual basis.
The Churches of God commenced in America became the most corrupt versions of the Churches of God ever seen in the world over the previous 1900 years. The SDAs were started by the Churches of God (SD) and were corrupted by the false prophetess Ellen G. White and by 1978 the Jesuits had corrupted them completely and they adopted Trinitarianism. The JWs were also corrupted and they abandoned Sabbath-keeping so they could attract more people through Antinomianism. In the 1940s the great false prophet and corporate thief, racist and plagiarist ever to hold office in the Churches of God established the Radio and later Worldwide Church of God. The false prophecies of these people are listed in the paper False Prophecy (No. 269).
The basis of their failure to deal with these problems stems from their racism and the lack of education at the basic social levels.
They started out on the right foot when the Sabbatarians migrated from Holland after they had been forced there by persecution in England. That story is told in the paper The Dutch Connection of the Pilgrim Fathers (No. 264).
However, it did not take long for the Trinitarians to follow them out and establish a system aimed at persecuting them. The establishment of slavery entrenched social injustice and it was never rooted out of their mentality and the social system among the blacks was never properly established and they were never properly educated as a people.
So that we can understand the people we will go through the statistics of the social injustice and system in the USA and the cause of why it is like it is and what might be done about it.
The problem is that the US claims it is religious but it ignores the laws of God completely. They worship the Triune God and the keep the festivals of the Sun and Mystery cults and they have set up a Civil Calendar based on the days of Human Sacrifice so that it is virtually impossible for a genuine Bible believer to actually follow the laws of God and God’s Calendar unharmed or not penalised (see the paper God’s Calendar (No. 156)). They actually moved Independence Day from 1 July to 4 July so that it fitted on to a day of Human Sacrifice under the witchcraft calendar. So also they kept Valentine’s Day and Halloween and all the other days of Human Sacrifice in accord with the Witchcraft Calendar.
The USA became a centre for those seeking to escape the formal structure of the authorities in UK and Europe and the Satanic cults followed them to the US also. There they established the false system of the Last Days also.
The fruit of this false system is there to be seen by all. The so-called land of the Free has some 4% of the world’s people and it has 25% of the world’s incarcerated population. The USA has almost as many people incarcerated as Russia and China combined. The USA, Russia and China together have half the world’s incarcerated population between them. They are the most totalitarian of the world’s states.
Their legislation and sentencing is Draconian and it is done on a for profit basis by commercially run corporations that make profit from the prisoners through their sub contracting systems of their incarcerated populace.
The international statistics on incarceration are at Appendix A. These show the horror of the US justice system.
The system is heavily weighted against blacks. If you are born a black man there is a 1 in 3 chance you will be incarcerated. A black woman has less chance and white men have also less chance and white women only 1 in 111 chance of incarceration (see Appendix B); See also subsequent appendices.
A social system that produces these statistics is a disaster. One cannot argue that the crimes are committed. However, the social system places people in a situation where they are forced into an unjust social structure in the same way the UK was in the 16th and 17th Centuries and we forced people into prisons and hulks and transportation to prison colonies.
Prison as enforced in the USA is a cruel and unusual punishment and the aim of the system is not rehabilitation and never has been. Moreover, it does not follow the Bible system of punishment and if it did the system would be vastly different and aimed at rehabilitation. Also the racist implications of profiling and
punishment develop social problems and lead to dreadful social problems themselves such as sodomy and lesbianism. And the religious systems encourage paedophilia, sodomy and lesbianism.
The Laws of God are examined in the paper Laws of God (L1) and the punishments are listed there and they should form the basis of the punishment system in the USA.
The education system is unjust and the health funding system is a scandalous farce and the disgrace is that the religious think they do God a favour by forcing people into debt and taking their inheritance from their children. The distribution of wealth in the US is a disgrace and the wealth is owned by the top few percent.
It will progress now to the collapse of the national currencies and the plan is to construct a world currency by the NWO.
The tables of the relative situations are attached to the message which will be produced as a paper.
Please pray for the stability of the nations around the world. Pray for the coming of the Witnesses and the Messiah 1263.5 days thereafter. See the paper The Witnesses (Including the Two Witnesses) (No. 135) and the Advent of the Messiah Part 1 (210A) and Advent of the Messiah: Part II (No. 210 B).
Wade Cox
Coordinator General
Appendix A
Prison Population
Country Prisoners
1 United States of America 2 228 424
2 China 1 701 344
3 Russian Federation 671 700
4 Brazil 581 507
5 India 411 992
6 Thailand 328 719
7 Mexico 255 638
8 Iran 225 624
9 Indonesia 167 163
10 Turkey 162 261
11 South Africa 157 824
12 Vietnam 130 180
13 Colombia 116 760
14 Philippines 110 925
15 Ethiopia 93 044
16 United Kingdom: England & Wales 85 544
17 Poland 77 872
18 Pakistan 74 944
19 Ukraine 73 431
20 Morocco 72 816
21 Peru 71 961
22 Bangladesh 71 606
23 France 66 270
24 Spain 65 148
25 Argentina 64 288
26 Taiwan 64 104
27 Japan 62 971
28 Egypt 62 000
29 Germany 61 872
30 Myanmar (formerly Burma) 60 000
30 Algeria 60 000
32 Cuba 57 337
33 Nigeria 56 785
34 Rwanda 55 618
35 Italy 53 889
36 Kenya 53 163
37 Venezuela 51 256
38 Republic of (South) Korea 47 969
39 Kazakhstan 47 939
40 Saudi Arabia 47 000
41 Uzbekistan 46 200
42 Iraq 45 634
43 Chile 43 264
44 Uganda 41 837
45 Canada 41 049
46 Malaysia 39 740
47 Tanzania 35 301
48 Australia 33 791
49 Belarus 31 700
50 Romania 29 964
51 Afghanistan 28 976
52 El Salvador 28 301
53 Turkmenistan 26 500
54 Dominican Republic 26 305
55 Ecuador 25 902
56 Cameroon 25 337
57 Tunisia 25 000
58 Sri Lanka 22 414
59 DRCongo (formerly Zaire) 22 000
60 Angola 21 634
61 Azerbaijan 20 327
62 Sudan 19 101
63 Czech Republic 18 906
64 Zimbabwe 18 857
65 Madagascar 18 719
66 Israel 18 658
67 Guatemala 18 583
68 Hungary 17 841
69 Costa Rica 17 440
70 Zambia 17 038
71 Nepal 16 813
72 Honduras c. 16 331
73 Mozambique 15 663
74 Panama 15 508
75 Cambodia 15 182
76 Ghana 14 728
77 Bolivia 14 415
78 Portugal 14 148
79 Yemen 14 000
80 Greece 13 147
81 Netherlands 12 638
82 Singapore 12 596
83 Puerto Rico (USA) 12 244
84 Malawi 12 156
85 Belgium 11 769
86 United Arab Emirates 11 193
87 Paraguay 10 949
88 Syria 10 599
89 Georgia 10 426
90 Haiti 10 266
91 Slovakia 10 104
USA has 4% of the World's Total Population and 23% of the World's Prison Population.
Over 2.3 Million people are currently incarcerated / serving time.
1 in 25 are caught up in the Criminal justice System on Probation or Parole.
Incarceration in the United States
See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Total incarceration in the United States by year
A graph showing the incarceration rate under state and federal jurisdiction per 100,000 population 1925–2012. Does not include prisoners held in the custody of local jails, inmates out to court, and those in transit.[1] The male incarceration rate is roughly 15 times the female incarceration rate.
Inmates held in custody in state or federal prisons or in local jails, December 31, 2000, and 2009–2010.[2]
From:
http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-u.s.s-growing-for-profit-detention-industry
By the Numbers: The U.S.’s Growing For-Profit Detention Industry
by Suevon Lee
ProPublica, June 20, 2012, 2:41 p.m.
General Statistics:
1.6 million: Total number of state and federal prisoners in the United States as of December 2010, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics
128,195: Number of state and federal prisoners housed in private facilities as of December 2010
37: percent by which number of prisoners in private facilities increased between 2002 and 2009
217,690: Total federal inmate population as of May 2012, according to the Bureau of Prisons
27,970: Number of federal inmates in privately managed facilities within the Bureau of Prisons
33,330: Estimated size of detained immigrant population as of 2011, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Corrections Corporation of America
66: number of facilities owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s largest private prison company based on number of facilities
91,000: number of beds available in CCA facilities across 20 states and the District of Columbia
$1.7 billion: total revenue recorded by CCA in 2011
$17.4 million: lobbying expenditures in the last 10 years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics
$1.9 million: total political contributions from years 2003 to 2012, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics
$3.7 million: executive compensation for CEO Damon T. Hininger in 2011
132: recorded number of inmate-on-inmate assaults at CCA-run Idaho Correctional Center between Sept. 2007 and Sept. 2008
42: recorded number of inmate-on-inmate assaults at the state-run Idaho State Correctional Institution in the same time frame (both prisons at the time held about 1,500 inmates)
The Geo Group, Inc., the U.S.’s second largest private detention company
$1.6 billion: total revenue in year 2011, according to its annual report
65: number of domestic correctional facilities owned and operated by Geo Group, Inc.
65,716: number of beds available in Geo Group, Inc.’s domestic correctional facilities
$2.5 million: lobbying expenditures in the last 8 years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics
$2.9 million: total political contributions from years 2003 to 2012, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics
$5.7 million: executive compensation for CEO George C. Zoley in 2011
$6.5 million: damages awarded in a wrongful death lawsuit against the company last June for the beating death of an inmate by his cellmate at a GEO Group-run Oklahoma prison. An appeal has been filed and is pending.
$1.1 million: fine levied against the company in November 2011 by the New Mexico Department of Corrections for inadequate staffing at one of its prisons
From:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/06/the-u-s-has-more-jails-than-colleges-heres-a-map-of-where-those-prisoners-live/
The U.S. has more jails than colleges. Here’s a map of where those prisoners live.
By Christopher Ingraham January 6
There were 2.3 million prisoners in the U.S. as of the 2010 Census. It's often been remarked that our national incarceration rate of 707 adults per every 100,000 residents is the highest in the world, by a huge margin.
We tend to focus less on where we're putting all those people. But the 2010 Census tallied the location of every adult and juvenile prisoner in the United States. If we were to put them all on a map, this is what they would look like:
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The map shows the raw number of prisoners in each U.S. county as of the 2010 Census. Much of the discussion of regional prison population only centers around inmates in our 1,800 state and federal correctional facilities. But at any given time, hundreds of thousands more individuals are locked up in the nation's 3,200 local and county jails. This map includes these individuals as well.
To put these figures in context, we have slightly more jails and prisons in the U.S. -- 5,000 plus -- than we do degree-granting colleges and universities. In many parts of America, particularly the South, there are more people living in prisons than on college campuses.
As you can see in the map, states differ in the extent to which they spread their correctional populations out geographically. Florida, Arizona and California stand out as states with sizeable corrections populations in just about every county. States in the midwest, on the other hand, tend to have concentrated populations in just a handful of counties. Prisons tend to leave an unmistakeable mark on the landscape, as artist Josh Begley has documented.
Because of the mix of state, federal and local correctional facilities in each county, it doesn't make sense to express these numbers as a rate -- X prisoners per Y number of adults. The presence of a federal or state facility in a given county will greatly inflate that county's prisoner count relative to the general population. And in many instances, large correctional facilities are located in sparsely populated regions, like Northern New York. In some of these counties, prisons account for 10, 20 or 30 percent of the total population.
In recent years criminal justice reform has risen to prominence in the national conversation, with both Democrats and Republicans looking for ways to dial back the incarceration-focused policies of the '80s and '90s. This map shows one reason why the issue is gaining traction: prisoners are literally every where you look in the U.S. Nearly 85 percent of U.S. counties are home to some number of incarcerated individuals. Localities spend tens of thousands of dollars per prisoner each year -- and often much more than that -- to house, feed and provide them with medical care. Most counties would doubtless prefer to spend this money elsewhere.
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie.html
By Peter Wagner and Leah Sakala March 12, 2014
Wait, does the United States have 1.4 million or more than 2 million people in prison? And do the 688,000 people released every year include those getting out of local jails? Frustrating questions like these abound because our systems of federal, state, local, and other types of confinement — and the data collectors that keep track of them — are so fragmented. There is a lot of interesting and valuable research out there, but definitional issues and incompatibilities make it hard to get the big picture for both people new to criminal justice and for experienced policy wonks.
On the other hand, piecing together the available information offers some clarity. This briefing presents the first graphic we’re aware of that aggregates the disparate systems of confinement in this country, which hold more than 2.4 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 2,259 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, and 79 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in the U.S. territories.1
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Jail churn is particularly high because at any given moment most of the 722,000 people in local jails have not been convicted....
While the numbers in each slice of this pie chart represent a snapshot cross section of our correctional system, the enormous churn in and out of our confinement facilities underscores how naive it is to conceive of prisons as separate from the rest of our society. In addition to the 688,000 people released from prisons each year2, almost 12 million people cycle through local jails each year.3 Jail churn is particularly high because at any given moment most of the 722,000 people in local jails have not been convicted and are in jail because they are either too poor to make bail and are being held before trial, or because they’ve just been arrested and will make bail in the next few hours or days. The remainder of the people in jail — almost 300,000 — are serving time for minor offenses, generally misdemeanors with sentences under a year.
So now that we have a sense of the bigger picture, a natural follow-up question might be something like: how many people are locked up in any kind of facility for a drug offense? While the data don’t give us a complete answer, we do know that it’s 237,000 people in state prison, 95,000 in federal prison, and 5,000 in juvenile facilities, plus some unknowable portion of the population confined in military prisons, territorial prisons and local jails.
There are almost 15,000 children behind bars whose “most serious offense” wasn’t a crime.
Offense figures for categories such as “drugs” carry an important caveat here, however: all cases are reported only under the most serious offense. For example, a person who is serving prison time for both murder and a drug offense would be reported only in the murder portion of the chart. This methodology exposes some disturbing facts, particularly about our juvenile justice system. For example, there are almost 15,000 children behind bars whose “most serious offense” wasn’t anything that most people would consider a crime: almost 12,000 children are behind bars for “technical violations” of the requirements of their probation or parole, rather than for a new specific offense. More than 3,000 children are behind bars for “status” offenses, which are, as the U.S. Department of Justice explains: “behaviors that are not law violations for adults, such as running away, truancy, and incorrigibility.”4
Turning finally to the people who are locked up because of immigration-related issues, more than 22,000 are in federal prison for criminal convictions of violating federal immigration laws. A separate 34,000 are technically not in the criminal justice system but rather are detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), undergoing the process of deportation, and are physically confined in special immigration detention facilities or in one of hundreds of individual jails that contract with ICE.5 (Notably, those two categories do not include the people represented in other pie slices who are in some early stage of the deportation process because of their non-immigration-related criminal convictions.)
This whole-pie approach can give Americans, who seem increasingly ready for a fresh look at the criminal justice system, some of the tools they need to demand meaningful changes.
Now that we can, for the first time, see the big picture of how many people are locked up in the United States in the various types of facilities, we can see that something needs to change. Looking at the big picture requires us to ask if it really makes sense to lock up 2.4 million people on any given day, giving us the dubious distinction of having the highest incarceration rate in the world. Both policy makers and the public have the responsibility to carefully consider each individual slice in turn to ask whether legitimate social goals are served by putting each category behind bars, and whether any benefit really outweighs the social and fiscal costs. We’re optimistic that this whole-pie approach6 can give Americans, who seem increasingly ready for a fresh look at the criminal justice system, some of the tools they need to demand meaningful changes to how we do justice.
This briefing draws the most recent data available as of March 13, 2014 from:
Several data definitions and clarifications may be helpful to researchers reusing this data in new ways:
The drafters of the document express thanks especially to Drew Kukorowski for collecting the original data for this project and to Alex Friedmann for both identifying ways to update the data, and for locating the civil commitment data. We thank Tracy Velázquez and Josh Begley for their insights on how to use color to tell this story. Thanks to Holly Cooper, Cody Mason, and Judy Greene for helping to untangle the immigration-related statistics. Thanks also to Arielle Sharma and Sarah Hertel-Fernandez for their copy editing assistance.