Number Of Jailed People In US Increasing By More Than 1000 Per Week

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Despite half a decade of sentencing reform efforts, America's jail and prison population is increasing at a rate of more than a thousand per week. The total number of people behind bars in the US at the end of last June was 2,186,230, up more than 56,000 over the previous year. Once again, the US retains its title as the world's most prison-crazy nation, holding onto first place in both prisoners per capita and total number of people imprisoned.

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warvigilent, on 7/10/2006 2:07:34 PM
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just remember americans, the money to keep all those petty drug charges in jail is coming out of your pockek

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SpiritAMX79, on 7/10/2006 2:24:42 PM
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^^^

im aware of it. lets not bust the dealer, lets but the guy with an eight ounce of chronic. fuckin war on drugs. its the fuckin war on people. MAKE IT LEGAL!!!! (oh yeah, that means i can grow my own and the government wont make money)

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Scootro, on 7/10/2006 2:24:52 PM
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Just like the snake eating its own tail, eh? Gotta love privatized correctional facilities.

Cash flow is the name of the game and this is a war on personal freedom.

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cajunguy, on 7/10/2006 2:26:02 PM
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An entire article, thinly disguised, trying to convince us to legalize drugs. Tsk-tsk.

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kipman725, on 7/10/2006 2:29:58 PM
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"An entire article, thinly disguised, trying to convince us to legalize drugs. Tsk-tsk." well half the US prison population is in there for "drug crimes" so it would definatly reduce the prison population :)

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frsrblch, on 7/10/2006 2:37:39 PM
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0602-20.htm

They're getting money from somebody to keep it illegal. They can't afford not to.

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bigblueguy47, on 7/10/2006 2:40:15 PM
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Interestingly, because of the way most nations tally the unemployment rates and poverty rates, the increasing prison population could be an explanation for the (somewhat) lowering unemployment rate in the U.S. as well as the somewhat increasing average income (currently, we do not count prison populations in our statistics for labor and wages, therefore a prison income of "0 dollars" in prison is excluded from our statistics). Probably not the whole story, but a significant part? maybe so.

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CygnusX1, on 7/10/2006 2:41:31 PM
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"well half the US prison population is in there for "drug crimes" so it would definatly reduce the prison population"

You're making the assumption ALL drugs should be legalized. Yeah I can just see a nation of crack heads running around loose committing many other crimes besides possession to feed their habits.

Also, its unusual for a pot possession to get put into prison on a first or even second offense, unless they have so much of it that they're likely dealing. Prisons are typically filled with druggies with multiple offenses. Since the first and second arrests werent enough to scare them straight about breaking the law (whether its right or wrong), then they deserve to be in prison. If they have a lack of respect of the law like that, who knows what other crimes they're likely to commit besides illegal possession.

Go live in Holland if you want your pot legal.

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Minshu, on 7/10/2006 2:51:36 PM
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There is no reason AT ALL for marijuana to be illegal. There are MORE THAN ENOUGH times people that get jailed on thier first time getting caught with so much as a joint on them.

Face the facts, this 'country' we 'live' in is nothing short of a total fucking nightmare. The Christians/Catholics (repubs) want to tie everyone down and force feed them thier version of the truth and in turn, control every aspect of your lives. While on the other hand, you have the drug-crazed fuckups running around thinking everything should be legal and screw the rest of you. Finally, we got the liberals (demos) that want to control everything also, but have the misguided belief that we are responsible as a nation to really do anything at all without completely screwing it up.

So, looking at that sample of our population, I'd have to say we need a fresh 'reboot' on everything. Fuck the war on drugs, fuck the 'establishment'. It's time to start over and this time, MAYBE we'll get it right.

P.S.
Get rid of all the fat people too. SICK OF LOOKING AT IT.

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ImperialistRunningDog, on 7/10/2006 3:00:50 PM
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We've far from the best weed, so-so blow, but some kick ass ice I hear, can't vouch for heroin or ecstacy, shrooms and acid in abundance, and now the greatest per capita prison population.

God Bless America, sniff, it does my heart proud.

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