Worse than Apartheid South Africa?

Did you know that the United States locks up adult black men at 8 times the rate of South Africa under apartheid??? According to Prisonsucks.com, the incarceration rates for adult black men were:

• 851 per 100,000 in apartheid South Africa
• 7,150 per 100,000 in George W. Bush's America.

So the freest country in the world locks up black men at 8.4 times the rate of the most openly racist government in recent history.

That explains the huge demand for African-American history books at the Prison Book Program.