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Obama Set to Become First Ever President to Visit Federal Penitentiary
The United States has a prison problem. We lock up more people than any other country in the world in terms of actual numbers and percentage of population. We represent 5% of the population
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It is interesting that no other president has visited. I assume it's because relating to prisoners is hard and most believe they are getting what they deserve. The article does do a nice job of mentioning the disparities in the prison population.