Monday, September 02, 2013

For domestic abuses of power there are non-governmental organizations with a high degree of respect the United Nations can rely on.

The record of the USA can be inclusive and bring about a historical account, if the global community cares to accumulate official data as a matter of record for further UN policy.

In the past 30 years, the United States has come to rely on imprisonment as its re-ponse to all types of crime. (click here) Even minor violations of parole or probation often lead to a return to prison. This has created a prison system of unprecedented size in this country.
The US incarcerates the largest number of people in the world. The incarceration rate in the US is four times the world average. Some individual US states imprison up to six times as many people as do nations of comparable population.
The US imprisons the most women in the world. Crime rates do not account for incarceration rates. Local and state facilities across the country are overcrowded, exacerbate prisoner health problems, risk the safety of both staff and prisoners, are in poor repair, and strain taxpayers. The nationwide bill for incarceration is conservatively estimated at $42 billion annually (see AOUSC, May, 2004). Many prison and jail systems have been sued for failure to meet minimum requirements for health and safety. Prisoner rehabilitation and reentry services are inadequately funded....

And the US Congress members voting for violence against Syria have their own records to be known. It is easy to displace the use of violence onto a President when in fact others have played a role in it as well.