“The real reason our incarceration rate is so much higher than other industrialized nation is that we have a certain demographic in our population that they do not. This demo, as a whole, has proved to be violent and criminal. I don’t care what anyone says I see it every day where I live.”
Martha Stewart spent 5 months in our jail system. For WHAT? She’s not violent. She was ensnared by a simple lie. For that reason alone, she was incarcerated.
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/16/news/newsmakers/martha_sentencing/
Who cares? Martha Stewart is not indicative of the problem being addressed in this article or on this thread.