Posted
2/29/2008 03:52:00 PM
by Douglas
I can't imagine anyone in the judicial system that could possibly think that this is a good
idea. And we mock China's human rights record.
More than one in 100 adults in the United States is in jail or prison, an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year and the federal government $5 billion more, according to a report released yesterday.
With more than 2.3 million people behind bars, the United States leads the world in both the number and percentage of residents it incarcerates, leaving far-more-populous China a distant second, according to a study by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States.
Let's not forget one of the main groups saturating the prison population: non-violent drug offenders. Murderers, rapists, politicians: hell, those are the people we
build prisons for. But this problem isn't going to go away until we stop locking up people that want to smoke a plant that grows on every corner of god's green earth.