The United States has 5% of world's population, but our prison's house 25% of the world's prisoners. This country has 50% of the world's lawyers.
This information comes from a column today by Fared Zacharia and a new book by Conrad Black. This year we have as a nation begun to think about our justice and corrections systems as we watched riots in Ferguson and in Baltimore. American's have begun to think about how did so many of our young men in inner cities wide up in our judicial system and eventually in our prisons.
One issue we will discuss in this blog will be what needs to be fixed so we can reduce our prison population but also restore faith in our nation's legal system. How can we make our cities safe and have effective justice for all our citizens.