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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.