There seems to be, quite literally, no end in sight, no escape for us or for those we incarcerate.

The answer may surprise folks who spend a lot time watching crime-soaked nightly news reports or New York Undercover, but compared to other Western societies, which incarcerate at rates as much as 10 times below the U.S., American crime is no more than average.

The court also held that the arrest warrant used to arrest the plaintiff was defective under state law because is was not a bench warrant, which was the only warrant the judge had the authority to issue, and therefore a false imprisonment claim was viable since the process could have been obtained in bad faith as a means for the officer to incarcerate the plaintiff and extract information from him.

Correctional administrators do not make the decision to incarcerate mothers, nor do they determine when they can be released.

The United States' criminal justice system incarcerates at a rate that is unmatched in the modern world.