One in 28 US kids has a parent in prison: study

[JBeukema]

One in 28 US kids has a parent in prison: study | Raw Story

 

[Skeptik]

Those statistics are just astounding, and unacceptable. From the link in the OP:

The study (PDF) from the Pew Research Center's Economic Mobility Project, released Tuesday, reports that the US prison population has more than quadrupled since 1980, from 500,000 to 2.3 million, making the US's incarceration rate the highest in the world, beating former champions like Russia and South Africa.

Unless you believe that the US is populated by criminals, we seriously need to reform our criminal justice system. How much longer can we afford to be the number 1 encarcerater in the world?