Western Massachusetts Copwatch

Claire Gordon, in yesterday’s Yale Daily News, gives the rundown of some problems with the U.S. prison system. Not only does the United States imprison a higher percentage of its people than any other nation in the world, the system is hugely burdensome to taxpayers and disproportionately punishes people of color. As Gordon puts it, “Prisoners may have broken the law, but our prisons, as they exist right now, are committing crimes against humanity.” Read more about these and other issues: Prisons commit greater crimes than inmates.