First of all, I'd like to point out that I agree with the need for prison reform and that we has Americas, need to use critical thinking to activity and progressively assess the state of our prison system as a whole. With that being said, I need to point out some things from the article. The article states that the United States has the highest overall incarceration rate worldwide. For every 100,000 people 700 of them have been or are in the United States prions system that is ten times higher then the rest of the world. This is due to the rise in nonviolent crime, drugs. The article also mentions that one of the reasons incarceration rate is so high is due to racial influences on people of colored descent who are more likely to be stop and
