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September 2, 2009, 01:41 PM | #26 | ||
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useless to this thread, but not misleading. Most of the books that I've read on the prison industrial complex show similar stats, the U.S. does in fact have the largest prison population in the world, even more than communist china. U.S. has 300 million people total, China has 1.3 billion. That alone should mean something. The U.S. has a little over 2 million currently in jail and over HALF of them are in prison for NON-violent drug crimes, China has around 1.5 million in prison...remember also that China doesn't have the humanitarian laws that we do, they can and do lock people up for reasoned dissent. |
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On the other hand, I could argue that the reason for a lower prison polulation is that China executes between 1700 and 10,000 folks a year (depending who is counting) IN PUBLIC and mostly for economic crimes (including drugs) Thread drift, carry on WildsheasheaAlaska ™ |
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If we would simply learn the lesson of Prohibition
which is that people want to get hammered, and will do it regardless of the laws, then we would not have a prison overpopulation problem.
End the drug wars, and you will end the prison problem. Didn't we learn this in the 1930s? --Shannon |
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For a sample of ignorance and lazy journalism let's look at who reporters interview to justify the continued losing war on the American people. When the reporter asks "Officer Norbert do you think we should end the war on drugs?" Do you think he's going to say... A) "yes it's a silly war that we lost a long time ago and I should be forced to give up my pension and get a real job in the private sector!" or B) "Congress should double our budget and we should continue arresting and imprisoning vast amounts of the American people until after I'm safely retired." Not many bureaucrats admit that their jobs should be eliminated.
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