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03-02-2009, 07:19 PM
1 in 6 in Georgia. 1 in 22 in Texas.
'During the last 25 years prison and jail populations have grown 274 percent to 2.3 million in 2008, according to the Pew research, while those under supervision grew 226 percent over the same span to 5.1 million. '
Guess what happened in 1984 ? The 'war on drugs' and prisons for profit. Actually I think that began in 1982. What a nice scam. Build prisons, lobby for stiffer sentencing...and watch the cash roll in.
That whole prison for profit shit has always infuriated me as it's just a recipe for...well....this.
As you'll see in the article, it states the expansion does not have anything to do with crime trends but how states 'handle' perpetrators...ie 'sentencing' with many in prison that have no business being there.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5215TW20090302
'During the last 25 years prison and jail populations have grown 274 percent to 2.3 million in 2008, according to the Pew research, while those under supervision grew 226 percent over the same span to 5.1 million. '
Guess what happened in 1984 ? The 'war on drugs' and prisons for profit. Actually I think that began in 1982. What a nice scam. Build prisons, lobby for stiffer sentencing...and watch the cash roll in.
That whole prison for profit shit has always infuriated me as it's just a recipe for...well....this.
As you'll see in the article, it states the expansion does not have anything to do with crime trends but how states 'handle' perpetrators...ie 'sentencing' with many in prison that have no business being there.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5215TW20090302