To: A. Pole
A shameful statistic.
Politicians are so terrified of being labeled as "soft on crime" that they are unwilling to examine any solution that doesn't involve throwing people into a hole and hoping for the best.
Ignorant voters get the government (and the society) that they deserve.
23 posted on
11/30/2006 6:39:24 AM PST by
Wormwood
(Self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly - Ronald Reagan)
To: Wormwood
I read an interview with a former prisoner who said that the incarceration increase IMPROVES the life of prisoners for a paradoxical reason: the real hardened criminals become a marginalized minority when normal people predominate.
When you imprison enough people the life inside becomes more like the life outside and the life outside becomes more like inside.
25 posted on
11/30/2006 6:47:12 AM PST by
A. Pole
(Arnold Toynbee: "Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.")
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