published May 2nd 2016, 3:00 pm, by Jeremy Herron and Joseph Ciolli (Bloomberg) — U.S. shares rose the most in two weeks and the dollar weakened to the lowest in almost a year as traders lowered expectations for higher interest rates as manufacturing slowed last month. Emerging-market assets retreated with

You’ve no doubt heard about the crowed prisons.  The results of the “war on drugs”, the three strike laws and the mandatory minimum prison sentences have  resulted in a hugely overcrowded prison population.  The United States has about 5% of the world’s population and about 25% of the world’s prison