Groundbreaking National Academy of Sciences Report: U.S. Needs to Significantly Reduce Prison Population

U.S. Has Less Than Five percent of World’s Population but Nearly 25 percent of People Behind Bars; Drug War Fueled Prison Explosion

NEW YORK—(ENEWPSF)—May 1, 2014. A groundbreaking reportreleased yesterday by the National Research Council, the principal operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, documents the unprecedented and costly price of U.S. incarceration rates. With less than five percent of the world’s population but nearly 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, the U.S.…