Ana Kasparian tells Cenk about the real (only) winners behind Louisana’s unfortunate designation as the “prison capital of the world”: the local sheriffs’ departments, which run the jails. One in 86 Louisana residents in jail — the highest in the U.S. and three times the incarceration rate in Iran and seven times China’s.
“There are some things that should not be for profit, and imprisoning our own citizens is definitely one of them,” Cenk says.