You have to be living in a cave to have missed the din about wildly excessive imprisonment in the United States.  According to the Left, in recent years we have become the shame of the world  --  "incarceration nation."  It's gotten so bad that we have locked up an astounding X percent of the population (I forget exactly what "X" is, and I suspect it varies depending on which liberal website you're looking at, but I'm sure it's big and designed to impress).

Some might wonder where this appalling state of affairs will lead.

This morning, we found out.