When you hear the words "mass incarceration," you know you're about to see a group of liberals complaining that there are too many criminals in prison, and that more should be released back into society. Such was the case on Thursday's MSNBC Live as host Ali Velshi presided over and voiced agreement with an all-liberal panel with Roland Martin of News One Now and Glenn Martin of Just Leadership USA.
The MSNBC host recalled the recent appointment of a new director of prisons, and then got into reciting prison statistics as he set up the segment:
Let's take a closer look at the job he's going to be facing -- mass incarceration in the United States. In the United States, the U.S. population -- the U.S. makes up five percent of the world's population, but accounts for -- look at this -- 25 percent of the world's prisoners. There are currently 2.3 million Americans behind bars and another 5.6 million under some form of correctional supervision.
Without noting that, in a nation of 330 million residents, 2.3 million prisoners is substantially less than one percent of the population, he then turned to recounting statistics on the race
of prison inmates:
Now, it's not evenly distributed. African-Americans and Hispanics make up about 32 percent of the U.S. population -- much more likely to be imprisoned than their white counterparts. They comprise 56 percent of all incarcerated people in the United States.
Velshi did not mention that crime statistics for decades have shown disproportionately higher crime rates by minorities.
Read more at:https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2017/08/04/msnbc-panel-shameful-sessions-putting-too-many-criminals-prison
