QI on the new American slave trade

Some shocking facts and statistics about the new American slave trade and prison system, from the quiz show Q.I.

The music is a remix of ''their law'' by the Prodigy.

For educational purposes only, under fair use.

For people who doubt my integrity and this videos legitimacy, Part 3 of this episode titled ''Gifts'' from Series G, Episode 11 of Q.I, can be watched in full on Youtube, a link will be provided below.

To try and ease any concerns one may have. As i have been accused of editing the Q.I footage contained within this video, in a dishonest way; in an attempt to mislead the viewer. So i will attempt to clear up any confusion/concern people have. Think i'm being dramatic, think again; i was likened to FOX NEWS in one comment.

Comment in full :

''Watch the full video, DON'T cut up the video and mislead people to think they are talking about the US when they were in fact talking about the UK

Your worse than Fox News, cutting out contexts like this.'' Comment made by~ Youtube user : Eschewered.

Which is quite the insult when all is considered. As Fox News would be liable to make the same faux pas as Youtube user : Eschewered has by using the possessive ''Your'', when in fact he should have used ''You're'' = You are. For example : ''You're'' stupid. Or, ''You're'' like Fox news.

Any how, back to the issue. I have used the stats provided by the programme which concentrate on the American prison population. The video is clearly titled ''QI on the new American slave trade.'' This video is not taken out of context.

They are talking about the American Prison Population and the stats do relate to America, as opposed to the United Kingdom. Which has less than 1/5 of the Population of the United States, with a prison population 26 times smaller than the USA's.

@ Eschewered,
''Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.'' ~ Thomas Fuller.

Part 3 of episode 11, Series G of Q.I, the content in question starts at 2 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km5JRSOQgQI
Uploaded by NickFromFulham

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 2,292,133 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails at year-end 2009 — about 1% of adults in the U.S. resident population.

Source : US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Program, Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus09.pdf

Other sources, for reference.
Kings College London, International Centre for Prison Studies. World Prison Population, 7th Edition:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/icps/downloads/world-prison-pop-seve...

BBC In Depth, World Prison Populations:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm

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Tags:

• QI
• slave trade
• American
• prison
• system
• three stikes
• you're out
• corruption
• enslavement
• Prison
• History
• Control
• United States System Americas
• slavery
• population
• World
• Earth

[stfunoob707]

amidst all this arguing I have to interject, american's don't spell "jail" with a "g" Fry -.-

[aViableNinja]

@stfunoob707

''G for Gaol, English spelling of course.'' Quote by Stephen Fry, from this video at about 00:50 into the video.

The English spelling of ''Jail'' is ''Gaol'' but it is considered old English and seldom used in the modern day.

[Eschewered]

Watch the full video, DON'T cut up the video and mislead people to think they are talking about the US when they were in fact talking about the UK.

Your worse than Fox News, cutting out contexts like this.

[aViableNinja]

@Eschewered

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 2,292,133 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails at year-end 2009 — about 1% of adults in the U.S. resident population.

Source : US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Program, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Multiple links have been provided in the video description, with a link to the entire part 3 of this episode. I have not mislead any one, they were talking about America (USA).

[Eschewered]

@aViableNinja I don't deny your statistics, but in your video editing skills make you a liar. It's people like you that damage the integrity of the people trying to raise awareness of this issue, scum worse than Fox News, cutting and pasting to give wrong contexts and impressions.

Go to /watch?v=nPZed8af9RI and go to 0:52, then compare it to THIS version on 1:22. You seem to have deliberately cut out Clive Anderson when he says "We seem to top the European league" and much more.

[aViableNinja]

@Eschewered

Clive Anderson makes mention of England/UK and Steven Fry responds, but because i didn't include that 8 second clip, in no way means that i am ''Misleading'' or ''Scum''. I made a video about the 'American prison population' and the terrorfying statistics that are included.

You claimed that the stats are in fact about the U.K and that i was misleading people by editing the video to make it about America. I did not do that. That was a lie; by you. I have not lied. Read the title

[madzndean]

No wonder they want so many people locked up, its legal salve labour...American probably dont have a clue about the business side of jail?

[stfunoob707]

@keaney123321 aren't you just a ray of sunshine

[keaney123321]

@stfunoob707 If your going to drop words like 'interject' at least try and get your grammar correct.

[Uriel1816]

A sad state of affairs.

[WillFromFinland]

@stfunoob707 You've just proven how dumb you are.

[JonathanSeagullUtube]

@Eschewered Actually the chances of being inbred raises exponentially IF your family is ultra rich... the 'RICHER' you are, the GREATER the chance of INBREEDING!

[aViableNinja]

@Eschewered,

No, it's not from the U.K, nor is it implemented in the UK. In 2004, 26 States and the Federal Government had laws which satisfy the general criteria for designation as "three strikes" Which takes it's name from Baseball, an American sport, not followed by the general bio-mass of the UK.

However in April 2010, the House of Commons aproved a bill, to make ''illegal file sharing'' have a penalty of ''Internet Service Interruption'' after ''three strikes'' of copyright infringment.