Une carte interactive de l’incarceration aux Etats-Unis
The Sentencing Project Interactive Map
http://www.sentencingproject.org/map/map.cfm
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►http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik
Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2109777,00.html
Is this hyperbole? Here are the facts. The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. That’s not just many more than in most other developed countries but seven to 10 times as many. Japan has 63 per 100,000, Germany has 90, France has 96, South Korea has 97, and Britain—with a rate among the highest—has 153. Even developing countries that are well known for their crime problems have a third of U.S. numbers. Mexico has 208 prisoners per 100,000 citizens, and Brazil has 242. As Robertson pointed out on his TV show, The 700 Club, “We here in America make up 5% of the world’s population but we make up 25% of the [world’s] jailed prisoners.”
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Infographic : Is This Justice ? http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2013/02/22/infographic-is-this-justice
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Les Etats-Unis, séparés de la plus grande partie du monde par deux océans et bordés par des alliés, est, par la force de la géographie, parmi les pays les mieux protégés au monde. Néanmoins, six décennies après V-J Day, près de 300 000 soldats américains sont stationnés à l’étranger (...).
Une grande partie de l’argent que le gouvernement fédéral consacre à la « défense » ne concerne ni la sécurisation des frontières du pays, ni la protection de ses citoyens. Au lieu de cela, l’armée américaine impose la politique étrangère américaine.
Si aujourd’hui un fabricant d’armes détient ce que Eisenhower a appelé une « influence injustifiée », c’est Lockheed Martin. Le cabinet a des contrats avec le Pentagone pour un montant d’une trentaine de milliards de dollars par an (...) Aujourd’hui, Lockheed Martin consacre 15 millions de dollars par an au lobbying et aux contributions de campagne. (...). Lockheed Martin a contribué aux campagnes de neuf des douze membres du Supercommittee, 51 des 62 membres du House Armed Services Committee (...) en tout, 386 des 435 membres du 112e Congrès.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/01/28/130128crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all
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USA / the money that states spend on prisons has risen at six times the rate of spending on higher education.
►http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnikThe accelerating rate of incarceration over the past few decades is just as startling as the number of people jailed: in 1980, there were about two hundred and twenty people incarcerated for every hundred thousand Americans; by 2010, the number had more than tripled, to seven hundred and thirty-one. No other country even approaches that. In the past two decades, the money that states spend on prisons has risen at six times the rate of spending on higher education. Ours is, bottom to top, a “carceral state,” in the flat verdict of Conrad Black, the former conservative press lord and newly minted reformer, who right now finds himself imprisoned in Florida, thereby adding a new twist to an old joke: *A conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged; a liberal is a conservative who’s been indicted; and a passionate prison reformer is a conservative who’s in one.
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