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16 of the 50 US states have less population than the 2.3 million Americans who are behind bars! In other words if all the US inmates are put in to one state, their numbers would slightly be less than the whole population of the state of Nevada but more than either states of: New Mexico, West Virginia, Nebraska, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont or Wyoming. The number of US prisoners are higher than the population of the last 4 listed states combined!

- Comparing to the US cities, a city filled with US inmates would rank as the 4th populated city in the United States, only falling behind New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The city of inmates would have more population that other major US cities such as Houston, Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas, Detroit, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver or San Jose.

While the United States government (or the land of the free as she still wish to be called !) is blaming the people of the middle east and the rest of the world for its lack of sense of security , it is quietly putting more and more of its own disenfranchised population behind bars. Unless America quickly address the source of it’s growing social problems, it may soon find out that the true challenge to the it’s security, does not reside outside the US borders but within America….and by noone but the millions of Americans who have been left behind. 2.3 million of them already behind bars and many others: not yet!.

Scary how American society in so many ways resembles Iran; Instead of addressing the roots of their self-inflicted social problems and violence, they both incarcerate or execute their citizens.