Wirepoints’ Matt Rosenberg joined WXAN radio host Will Stephens to talk about the “mass “incarceration” myth that’s promoted in Illinois and across the nation. He points out that less than 0.56 percent of the adult population are in jail, and even when those on parole or probation are added the total share is still less than 2 percent.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
You think half a percent is small? Are you kidding? Is a half – percent of anything no big deal? What if 1 out of every 200 airplanes crashed? Would that not be a serious crisis for aviation? The adult population essentially generates 100% of GDP. So, in dollar terms, one half of a percent of adults behind bars is over 1 trillion dollars in production lost per year – not to mention the trade-offs in consumption incarceration forces us to make. I get that you guys are tough on crime and object to the decarceration policy of many liberal… Read more »
Why do the lefties push the mass incarceration narrative if it’s not true? How come it takes Wirepoints to expose this? If journalism is so corrupt and lazy, why don’t any of our politicians use their bully pulpit to actually tell the truth? Why do they all insult our collective intelligences? What doe Soros have to gain from prosecutors who are “soft on crime”? Why do Dem pols and elites decry “systemic racism” and Push the incarceration narrative when most of the murders in Chicago are Black men being killed by other black men? Why are drugs allowed to be… Read more »