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Re: Tony Martin case: You can't {make up} better criticism of Liberals!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:34:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
Yeah, that’s the big problem -- my naïveté!
Growing prison populations challenge already cash-strapped states
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/27/prison.population.ap/index.html#
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America’s prison population grew again in 2002 despite a
declining crime rate, costing the federal government and states an estimated $40
billion a year at a time of rampant budget shortfalls.
The inmate population in 2002 of more than 2.1 million represented a 2.6 percent
increase over 2001, according to a report released Sunday by the Bureau of
Justice Statistics. Preliminary FBI statistics showed a 0.2 percent drop in
overall crime during the same span.
Experts say mandatory sentences, especially for nonviolent drug offenders, are a
major reason inmate populations have risen for 30 years. About one of every 143
U.S. residents was in the federal, state or local custody at year’s end.
Interestingly, John -- legal pharmaceutical grade cocaine would cost as little
as maybe $5 a gram. Heroin would have a similar price probably. Neither type of
user is harmful to others -- not when they do not have to resort to theft or
prostitution to get their fix! A $5 a day habit is no worse than a pack of
cigarettes.
But right, I’m an idiot. What was I thinking?
-- Hop-Frog
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