“The old question used to be, ‘How can we demonstrate we’re tough on crime?’ More and more, policy-makers from both sides of the aisle are asking a better question, which is: ‘How do we get taxpayers a better return on their dollars?”
Exactly. But states spend so much on prisons they have nothing left for alternatives.
PS, the popuation of New Orleans is 70+% Black.
It’s Jindal’s fault
I wonder what the figures would be if you took New Orleans out of the mix. I know that the Tennessee numbers would be a lot different if Memphis was not included.
Probably reflects Louisiana’s alcohol problem. That and years of government promoted corruption.
Louisiana also has one of the highest percentage of minorities of any state. It isn’t a coincidence.
I feel sorry for that poor horse. That’s a lot of weight to carry.
O come on... Inmates are the only ones who can’t leave the state.
Hard to say who has a rougher life there, the inmates or the horse under that corpulent cop.
[cue Inner Circle]
“Bad boys!
“Whatcha want? Whatcha want?
“Whatcha gonna do-oo
“When da sheriff John Brown come f’you...?”
“It made my heart ache, you know, to see all these beautiful black men in the joint...the warriors should be out there helping the masses. I felt that way, I was real naïve. Six weeks I was up there and I talked to the brothers. I talked to ‘em, and …Thank God we got penitentiaries!” - Richard Pryor