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I take it that you're not a black man living in a rural area, because if you were statistically 13% of your friends would be in prison.



Very true, but more shocking is that more than 1 in a 100 Americans are behind bars.

It actually costs more to send a person to prison for one year than tuition at Princeton!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/28cnd-prison.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/chart-on...




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