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1 posted on 10/28/2005 3:42:13 PM PDT by JTN
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2 posted on 10/28/2005 3:43:22 PM PDT by JTN ("We must win the War on Drugs by 2003." - Dennis Hastert, Feb. 25 1999)
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What's with the "b" symbols? Trying to bold the headline when you can't?


3 posted on 10/28/2005 3:45:28 PM PDT by NapkinUser ("It is a damn poor mind indeed which can think of only one way to spell a word." -Andrew Jackson)
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Those guys in the Sentencing Project are totally crazy.

Looks like we aren't done locking up the bad guys.

4 posted on 10/28/2005 3:45:35 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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We're seeing the emergence of a new ethnic group - Incarcero-Americans!

They already outnumber Native Americans. Isn't that special!


5 posted on 10/28/2005 3:45:54 PM PDT by headsonpikes (The Liberal Party of Canada are not b*stards - b*stards have mothers!)
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And the point of this is what? That we need more prisons?


6 posted on 10/28/2005 3:47:26 PM PDT by twas
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Interesting numbers - I want to see the numbers in relation to first, second, third or more time offenses. I'd wager that well over fifty percent of those prisoners have been arrested and convicted of crimes in the past...

While some might view this as evidence that the war on drugs is a failure, I view it as evidence that our judicial system is relatively healthy and our prison system is an absolute failure. One should want to do everything in their power to avoid going to prison for a second time, yet far too many people view it as their second or even first home.
7 posted on 10/28/2005 3:48:28 PM PDT by kingu (Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
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Good. Fewer dopeheads on the street to break into my house or car, commit DUI, burn down the apartment building when their meth lab goes bad, etc.


8 posted on 10/28/2005 3:48:45 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat (SonofaBuckner Qualls and Lidge, king and queen of Choke City, USA)
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How about violent crime?

Street robberies? Residential burglaries? Hold-ups? Strong-arm robberies? Smash and grab robberies? Muggings?

If these are down then it is probably because the drug addicts are locked up.
9 posted on 10/28/2005 3:52:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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(b>Feature: Drug War Prisoner Count Over Half a Million, US Prison Population at All-Time High (/b>

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11 posted on 10/28/2005 3:53:27 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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GOOD !!!
12 posted on 10/28/2005 3:54:31 PM PDT by genefromjersey (So much to flame;so little time !)
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More than half a million people were behind bars for drug offenses...

And not one of them are behind bars for smoking pot. I wonder what they did...

13 posted on 10/28/2005 3:55:08 PM PDT by Libloather (Geena Davis isn't man enough to play Hillary on TV. Heck, BILL isn't man enough to play Hillary...)
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Instead of imprisonment, bring back the chain gangs and resurface the hi-ways and by-ways, pick up trash, etc.


15 posted on 10/28/2005 3:55:18 PM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (Rock beats scissors, don't run with rocks. NRA)
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If we were really in a drug war, we would shoot every pusher, dealer, maker, mule or grower of criminal drugs.

These types of people put more kids on the road to ruin than anything else.


18 posted on 10/28/2005 4:03:21 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (I shot an error into the air. It's still going everywhere. R. A. HEINLEIN)
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Think Fenway Park in Boston full to capacity.

Think 65 Fenway Parks full to capacity.

That is how many prisoners we currently house.

Now if we could only charge these prisoners $20 for parking and give it all to me, I'd be able to deposit $45,630,000 into my checking account.

22 posted on 10/28/2005 4:17:23 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (What Would Howard Roarke Do?)
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And here I sit in my six figure home (how many six figures? None of your frickin' business!) smokin' weed. Heck, maybe I'm doin' something wrong.


30 posted on 10/29/2005 4:25:37 PM PDT by Wolfie
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I think it's $27,000 per year to keep an inmate in the Cal Dept of Corrections.


38 posted on 10/30/2005 7:56:49 PM PST by bigsigh
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