"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Crime of Punishment
Submitted by Sharon Secor on Thu, 2010-12-09 05:24
“In 2005, when a federal court took a snapshot of California’s prisons, one inmate was dying each week because the state failed to provide adequate health care… Today, there are almost twice as many inmates in California’s 33 prisons as they were designed for. The court ordered the state to reduce that population by around 30 percent.” (NYT, Registration Required) The number of drug and non-violent offenders should be noted, as well as the number of people incarcerated for victimless "crimes."
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