We're #1! We're #1!
and how many of them really ARE Americans??
Maybe these people should stop breaking the law (just a thought).
Yeah, but the US doesn't shoot inmates and sell 'em for spare parts.
This is because we are a nation of laws. I was down in some rough part of Caracas, Venezuela a couple of weeks ago. What I saw there was much lawlessness, drunkenness, a survival of the fittest culture. Believe me when I say this, we in America have a lot to be thankful for.
That’s what i was thinking: maybe we’re locking more up because we have stupid laws...?
Comparisons to China and Russia are misleading. The US prefers to store their crminals while those countries might just eliminate some.
That's a part of it, but probably it has more to do with the fact that we are moderate in our dealings with criminals. We don't go too lenient, like they do in Europe, and just give you time served and probation for murder, nor do we shoot you in the back of the head because we need your kidneys, like they are wont to do in China.
We're #1! We're #1!
This problem is easily solved. Just make crime legal.
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. “
Ayn Rand.
Mark
That’s because there are too few executions...
Somalia, Darfur, and Kenya have no prisons. The concept of a prison system is considered a waste of resources in much of the world.
The Corrections officers I talked to are tired of these young students getting locked up for dumb ‘crimes’ and being placed next to violent offenders. But the CO's also know that lots of money comes from mommies and daddies paying fines for these students. Then taxpayers had to lock them up and pay for a new prison.
The WOD is a scam on taxpayers perpetrated by the law-enforcement "industry".
The numbers were "especially startling" for some groups, the report said. "While one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is behind bars, for black males in that age group the figure is one in nine." Hm, 1 in 9.. That's a pretty dire situation.Only about 20% are there for drug related crimes -- dealing and trafficking. Put another way, we could set them all free and we'd still be number one. By a huge margin.
In 2003, 68% of prison and jail inmates were members of racial or ethnic minority groups. More minorities are in prison than in college. Remove them from the statistic, and we drop from 2.3 million to 740,000 -- less than Russia.
It is not like we just lock people up arbitrarily. Those folks in our prisons are there because a judge and jury determined that they needed to be punished for committing one or more crimes. This high rate of incarceration probably says a lot about the break down of our society more than anything else.
If you do the crime, you must do the time.
SOLUTION: Let all the law abiding live behind the protected prison walls, let all the convicts out. Soon the convicts will have all killed themselves in gang wars leaving us with a new start.