The beacon of freedom

""According to the Justice Department (DoJ) data, 2.2 million people were incarcerated in 2010. The U.S. operates the largest prison system in the world. A series of recent DoJ reports shine a needed spotlight on rape and sexual victimization in U.S. prisons and jails. It estimates that nearly 210,000 prisoners are abused annual and that abusers are split relatively evenly between fellow inmates and prison personnel. In 2008, the DoJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 4.5 percent of all inmates reported sexual assaults. Welcome to the American gulag.""