May 31, 2011 (vol. 123, iss. 139) • Page Image 5
…Tuesday, May 31, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 15 TEDDY PAPES|VEWPN Prison pandemic There is an epidemic of incar- ceration in the United States. Roughly one in 100 adults is hehind bars. That is five times more people than the United Kingdom, nine times more than Germany and 12 times more than Japan, per capita. I hear about the military-industri- al complex from time to time and have dismissed it mostly as liberal hysteria, ...…