US has turned into warfare, prison state: Ex-US Senate candidate
The United States has developed into a “warfare” and “prison state” that has led to a country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, a former US Senate candidate says.
“The United States is a welfare, warfare, prison state,” said Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas.
“The prison system is being overloaded with people who really don’t belong there and this is creating a crisis in families, a crisis in individual lives,” Dankof told Press TV on Thursday.
“It’s also creating a crisis for a society that continues to spend more money on all of these things with less good results,” he added.
“This leaves us with the disintegration of the United States as a society; we are not the same country that we were in the aftermath of the Second World War, we are not the same country that was the case during my grandparents and great-grandparents generation,” Dankof said.
More than 5 million US children under 18 have at least one parent in prison and children in these situations suffer from low self esteem, poor mental and physical health, and other problems, according to a new report.
About one in every 14 children, or 7 percent, has had a father or mother incarcerated, according to Child Trends, a research organization based in Bethesda, Maryland.
African American children are twice as likely to have an imprisoned parent, with nearly 14 percent of all black youths currently between the ages of 12 and 17 having seen a parent go behind bars in their lifetimes.
While the US represents nearly five percent of the world’s population, it incarcerates about 25 percent of the global prison population, making it the world’s largest jailer, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners costs $24,000 per inmate each year and $5.1 billion in new prison construction.
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