disproportionate minorities

US prison population at all time high

By Naomi Spencer
WSWS
29 September 2007

"RoundHouse"Joliet Prison, Illinois
The “war on terror” is endlessly peddled by the American political establishment as a crusade for freedom and liberty around the world. Yet, as the latest prison figures again demonstrate, far from representing freedom, justice and democracy, the United States is notorious for its propensity to jail its own population.