The hockey-stick from hell: US incarceration per 100,000 people, 1890-today
by Cory Doctorow from on (#Q7HA)
Vox parsed out the Bureau of Justice Statistics' numbers on incarceration in prisons (excluding jails) and produced this ghastly visualization tracking the transformaiton of America into the country with the highest rate of incarceration in the history of the world. (more")