[Wormwood]

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.

[A. Pole]

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.