Be a True American--Go to Prison
"For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America's rank as the world's No. 1 incarcerator," wrote David Crary, AP National Writer. Keep in mind that's the percentage currently incarcerated--it doesn't count all those who are on probation or parole, or those who used to be.
America is number one both by number and, perhaps more critically, percentage. The 50 states spent a total of more than $49 billion on corrections last year. With more and more money being spent on corrections, and more and more people being "corrected," we have to ask--is this working?
See the article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080229/ap_on_re_us/prison_population
Comments
Yes, the American system is a mess. What you should do is execute everybody who breaks the law. Then you'd have no lawbreakers! You might have no people either.
Posted by: Fergiemeister | March 1, 2008 05:12 PM
Grabbing people for smoking pot and throwing them in cages with violent mentally ill people is supposed to make them all better? If locking people up stopped crime, there wouldn't be any crime.
Posted by: Mary Contrary | March 3, 2008 07:02 AM
So what I want to know is when do Karl Rove and George W. Bush get in that top 1 percent?
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | March 5, 2008 03:16 AM
If you want to get rid of crime, stop making so many people criminals. Most people are arrested for laws that violate personal freedom. People like calling America the freest nation in the world even though every report I've seen says otherwise.
Posted by: Greg Kinear | March 8, 2008 06:51 PM
Sorry. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. The judges they must let the innocent be free. This is the way. Do not punish everyone.
Posted by: Troy from Singapore | September 13, 2009 08:53 AM