American Justice System Facts and Statistics The United States holds five percent of the world’s population but incarcerates 25 percent of the world’s total prison population- 2.3 million Americans incarcerated; 3.7 million on probation; 840,000 on parole. At the end of 2012, there were …
Tough on Crime Era Fear, the greatest social and political motivator, activates our evolutionary adapted primal defense mechanisms and threatens our stable states of consciousness by replacing our mental comfort with an uneasy and uncomfortable feeling of fret and vulnerability in the face of …
Prison Industrial Complex and the Private Prison Industry Nefarious means beget nefarious ends; and in a capital and profit-driven society, where many own little and few own most, there exists a two-tiered system of justice and organization of politics that punishes, condemns and exploits …
Once a bastion for knowledge and hope for a better future, with greater opportunities and economic mobility, the modern American education system now suffers in obscurity on the world stage as newer countries find fresh and progressive ways to educate their children in this …
AMERICAN STUDENT INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS A constant point of contention, focus, and debate within the American political and education system are the standardized test scores that rank students in countries around the world based on a specific set of standards according to their level of …
Student Loans/Debt After the counter-culture movement of the 1960s, where the first generation of young, college-educated adults used their newly acquired knowledge to refuse the governments corruption and the illegitimate war in Vietnam, coincidentally or not, the price of higher education slowly increased and …
Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a …
ROLE OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA The purpose of the mainstream media changes over time to reflect the prevailing thought and behavior within society as a way to express the current, underlying feelings, emotions, truths and beliefs of a nation and its citizens. Mainstream media …
ADVERTISING IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA The mainstream media industry in particular, and the larger telecommunications sector in general, are in the profit business during an era of vast and rapid change in the United States. But unfortunately for American society, culture, and democracy, that private …