We live in a police state, simple as that. With about 1 in 90, to 1 in 60 (about 1-1.5%) of our population in prison at any given moment, and having more prisoners than anyone in the world (By a factor of 5, compared to the runner up, communist China), it’s necessary to keep the money rolling in. Bloated government has to be funded somehow.
It is not the % of people in prison that makes a police state. Most of the folks in prison are there for armed robbery, home invasion, murder, rape, and other violent crimes. If you do that crime plan on sitting in the box forever as far as I am concerned.
This poor guy....I am ashamed of a system that produces this result
The only reason China would have fewer in prison is that there if you are a big enough annoyance they'll just take you out back and shoot you.
It's not clear to me how prisoners are funding government. The high number of prisoners is certainly funding private companies that run prisons.
NOT ONE PROFESSIONAL doing his prison job like an American? They all acted like sadistic Soviets at the prison camp?
This is seriously troubling. I am glad he got 22 million. It should have been enough to close the prison down for lack of funding. I want to know the names of all the animals posing as humans who were in on this crime.
Abusers of police authority should go on a registry like the sexual pervert registry so they don’t get hired for a job with exposure to human beings and surely not with any power over other human beings.
Part of that is "We" have laws. And when they are broken we do something. Period.
Comparing us to China is laughable.
Are you an Amnesty International supporter?
Oh, I agree...that some shouldn't be warehoused...they should be shot.
And some should never have been thrown in jail. A couple joints, an ounce of personal pot. Nope.
The three strikes rule should be thought about again....some perps don't deserve it...for sure.
But.....overall, we throw people in jail who deserve it.
This is an isolated case..and tragic, IF true.
Apples and oranges. First of all, communist China executes people far more rapidly, and for lesser transgressions than we do.