Educate or Incarcerate?

The United States accounts for 5% of the world's population, but locks up nearly 25% of the world's prisoners.

The truth will set you free, avoiding it will imprison you. Americans have neglected their duty of self-government for so long, our kids are more likely to be put in jail than to be put in office. This author believes the answer to this growing crisis is for the american people to educate themselves on what they're giving government the authority to arrest them for. Leave people alone and they will strive for better lives.

The link that follows will take you to an article that I found enlightening that sheds some light on the financial and societal problems facing Americans today.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/07/jealous.prison.reform/index.html?hpt=Sbin