re: America/LA Prison Population. Explain these numbers in as non-partisan way as possible

Big, corrupt governments, even (and especially) state* governments, who pass more and more and more laws...year after year after year= easier to get inda club.

Year in and year out Mississippi might have LA beat on the fat people and heart disease, but if there's one governing body that I think of when I think "corrupt governing bodies," it's Louisiana.

And I say that as a fan of the people of that state.

The problem is not the goddamn police, people, the problem is the police STATE!

*ETA: (and especially) state AND EVEN MORE ESPECIALLY, LOCAL governments