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Keep those kiddies reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in gubbement school, "Liberty and Justice for all" Somewhere in the afterlife King George chuckles
The rate was pretty stable at about 100 per 100,000 until 1975. Most of it undoubtedly is the failed war on drugs, but there are plenty of other ways people end up in jail. Martha Stewart is an example--they tried to get her for insider trading, failed, so they sent her up for lying to investigators. Lots of people end up in prison just for wanting to get laid, since prostitution enforcement has become a cottage industry for police.
You would think that in our happy little country obsessed with the prison industrial complex that correctional officers would be a booming occupation, but the stats show differently......
Only 5% projected growth rate between 2012-22 (slower than average).
Keep those kiddies reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in gubbement school, "Liberty and Justice for all" Somewhere in the afterlife King George chuckles
After the last 100 years of law, after law, after law, you would think we would be robots for the state....
How many laws can be made, until we are not as free as we started out to be.
Liberties decrease daily, from all levels of bureaucratic government.
Keep those kiddies reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in gubbement school, "Liberty and Justice for all" Somewhere in the afterlife King George chuckles
True. A Calif friend drove to Flor and had to pass thru El Paso, Texas. My friend was smoking medical marijuana (he has a permit) and was detained in jail for 3 hours and fined $500!!! We are NOT a FREE country folks. Try not paying taxes or not showing up to court. Try boarding an airplane fight in this country. Try not going to war when you are drafted to go to war. Try demonstrating against the injustices of "the man" in this country. We are NOT free!! We have been brainwashed into believing it so. It does not make it so.
True. A Calif friend drove to Flor and had to pass thru El Paso, Texas. My friend was smoking medical marijuana (he has a permit) and was detained in jail for 3 hours and fined $500!!! We are NOT a FREE country folks. Try not paying taxes or not showing up to court. Try boarding an airplane fight in this country. Try not going to war when you are drafted to go to war. Try demonstrating against the injustices of "the man" in this country. We are NOT free!! We have been brainwashed into believing it so. It does not make it so.
But people fear others being more free. If most people really wanted to be more free, they wouldn't continue as usual voting for legislators who never complain there's a problem concerning lack of freedom in America while making more crimes as felonies.
It's time we renamed the US Department of Justice The US Department of Retribution because we nolonge seek justice but punishment and suffering. Also we need to change the name of this Department's head and cabinet position from The Attorney General to The Shyster General!
This high incarceration rate is the result of two things:
1. Idiotic mandatory sentence laws from 1980s that put nonviolent offenders behind bars, mostly for petty drug offenses.
2. Privatizing prisons, making full occupancy more profitable for the political insiders who are awarded the contracts.
This insanity has to stop.
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