By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World In the U.S., there are more prisoners than farmers. In fact, according to the journal, Solutions, the U.S. housed about one-fourth of the prison population worldwide, which amounts to nearly 2.3 million people.1 Most (80 percent) of the...
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