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Kadie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 05:52 PM Original message |
One of every 75 U.S. men in prison, report finds |
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lucky777 (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. Land of the Free . . . . |
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Voltaire99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 06:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Prison will absorb the dwindling middle class |
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Alerter_ (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 07:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. surplus labor |
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okcdem (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 04:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
33. I only know about Oklahoma |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 12:30 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. this was done during the vietnam war, i believe |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. This ought to be a fiscal responsibility issue: |
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JayS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 09:13 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. Yeah, but try and get a politician to listen to you about this. n/t |
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cally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 10:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
22. Completely agree |
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Barkley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 12:02 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. Right on cally! |
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Sirveri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
3. Anyone have exact figures for how many people were put in for |
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arcos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 07:19 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. last heard, it was over 50%... |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. 1 of every 75 "Men"?? or people?? |
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mulethree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 06:20 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. 715 per 100,000 people = 1 in 139 people |
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nothingshocksmeanymore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. Bullshit on Ashcroft |
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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
8. just doing all we can to enrich |
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markses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
9. Land of the free? |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
11. What's the incarceration rate in developed countries |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 11:51 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I think a quarter to a tenth of the U.S. rate |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 12:32 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. jeezus |
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Qutzupalotl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 12:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
25. And we've more than doubled since then |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 09:25 AM Response to Reply #11 |
20. Nationmaster is a decent first site for such statistics. |
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Mace (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-27-04 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
13. Truly sad |
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ze_dscherman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 12:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. More money is spent on prisons than on schools |
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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
17. related article: EMBARGOED-U.S. Record Prison Population Rises Again |
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catmandu57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
19. Part of the problem is |
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JayS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 10:36 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. It's Friday. |
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okcdem (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 04:30 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. There is more.. |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
23. Out Future Division of Labor: |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
26. "the success of efforts to take hard-core criminals off the streets" |
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JayS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-04 01:00 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. We are using the program that Ashcroft pushes here and... |
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Columbia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
30. Thank you, War on Drugs |
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JayS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 04:45 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Ron Paul will! :) n/t |
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burrowowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
32. I posted the commondreams |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
34. I wonder what the ratio is between class and number is prison. |
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