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Posted on 11/30/2006 11:21:21 AM PST by Froufrou
A record 7 million people _ or one in every 32 American adults _ were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year, according to a report released Wednesday.
More than 4.1 million people were on probation and 784,208 were on parole at the end of 2005. Prison releases are increasing, but admissions are increasing more.
Men still far outnumber women in prisons and jails, but the female population is growing faster. Over the past year, the female population in state or federal prison increased 2.6 percent while the number of male inmates rose 1.9 percent. By year's end, 7 percent of all inmates were women. The gender figures do not include inmates in local jails.
"Today's figures fail to capture incarceration's impact on the thousands of children left behind by mothers in prison," Marc Mauer, the executive director of the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based group supporting criminal justice reform, said in a statement. "Misguided policies that create harsher sentences for nonviolent drug offenses are disproportionately responsible for the increasing rates of women in prisons and jails."
From 1995 to 2003, inmates in federal prison for drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population growth.
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Just look at your state budget, a HUGE chunk of it goes for your dept of corrections, a misnomer if there ever was one, they don't CORRECT anything, they just warehouse people, getting them off the streets for some period. Sentence is finished : back on the streets, doing the same crimes. These same dept of corr people will fight this chip-implant idea tooth and nail, they know where and how they make a living, move most of the cons out of their control and they'll scream like stuck pigs.....As to the dopamine injection device, dopamine is the NATURAL happy brain drug, but the body doesn't like to make it just because of the energy-cost, thus the drug habits of so many millions of people, and destroyed lives thereof...
No thanks. I value my TS security clearance.,
I see your problem. You missed the point. My point was that anyone who wants to can get meth. I didn't actually mean that "YOU" should do it.
Your cutsie phrase "functional addict" is totally unacceptable in my world.
Once again, I see - you aren't familiar or you disagre with with the concept so you try to denigrate it by calling it "my cutsie phrase." Lovely tactic. It's not my phrase, and what does it mean, anyway, to have a phrase that is "totally unacceptable in my world?" The phenomenon is well-described - I took the time to post a couple of links upthread. Just because you have never heard of or don't understand the term doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Perhaps you could do a little research on the subject and learn something. Or if you want to refute it, show me a legitimate source that says that it's impossible to be a heroin addict that functions in society. Hint: You won't be able to.
His brain was too fried to care about seeking out help. What he wanted was more meth. That's pretty much all a meth addict wants.
Again, he was able to get all the meth he wanted while it was illegal. How is this farmer supposed to be in worse shape once drugs got legalized? You have related a horror story about a drug user - there are many out there. But the story is absolutely meaningless as it relates to whether or not drugs should be legalized.
Oh are you saying drug dealers should not go to prison?
Correct. The dealers, as dealers, didn't use violence or fraud, so government has no role here.
If you actually studied the history of science fiction, from jules verne onward, you would find SOME of it as prescient. So what is YOUR practical solution to the problem?
I'm in. Standing up, count me...
I thought seritonin was in there, to keep from being hungover...
Okay, posting nazi you aren't! But I had the ratio in my search. Grrr...
No worries frou ;D!
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There's no way to rule innocent men. 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. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers.
Ayn Rand
Great and most appropriate quote!
thnx, that's very interesting. looks like federal prisoners are onyla small percentage of total prisoners.
Brain chemistry is a large subject, and yet it is brain chemistry that is the root of the drug problem. Once again, VESTED INTERESTS(cops/trial lawyers/judges/guards)are dead set against some people in medicine who are trying to develop just what I was referring to : a device that directly injects dopamine into the brain. Instead of crime you have happy, smiling people; high on NATURAL dopamine. The thought of that infuriates cops, etc = no business = out of business.
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