This is really important to read.
The 1 in ever 37 people in the US is ether in prison or has served time there. This is now the highest incarceration rate in the entire world, no more of this "industrialized world" shenanigans. Yes, we have more people per capita in jail than China and Iran.
If you're a black man, you're chances of going to jail are now 1 in 3, that's up from 1 in 4 the last time I heard. Can you imagine, or do you know personally, the effect this knowledge must have on a boy growing up? If you're a white man, you're changes are only 1 in 17 but this is still amazingly high.
Nearly 1 in 4 of the inmates in federal and state prisons are there because of drug-related offenses, most of them nonviolent. And for women, that's 1 in 3.
They don't give any statistics for blond girls from Connecticut, but I'm guessing we're fairing well comparatively, not that I'm holding down the average...