America has Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners

[AbuMubarak]

Rough justice in America

Too many laws, too many prisoners
Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little

Jul 22nd 2010 | Spring, Texas A long love affair with lock and keyEternal punishmentmens reaPrison deters? Not much, not the worstAnd now the reckoning, in dollars

[DZF]

Re: America has Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners

:jkk:

Thank you for posting this article. It's quite revealing and brutally honest. The US "Correctional" system is dangerously over crowded and even more dangerously under funded. Surprisingly enough, many state level "correctional facilities" are privately owned and operated by large corporations. Ironic tidbit here... the facility I was incarcerated in is owned and operated by a local baptist church. It's an understatement to say that we were treated VERY un-christian like. LOL

[AbuMubarak]

Re: America has Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners

Rutgers Webcam-Spying Defendant Is Sentenced to 30-Day Jail Term

By KATE ZERNIKE

Dharun Ravi had faced up to 10 years in prison after he was found guilty of using a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide.

[Mich]

Re: America has Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners

Rutgers Webcam-Spying Defendant Is Sentenced to 30-Day Jail Term

By KATE ZERNIKE

Dharun Ravi had faced up to 10 years in prison after he was found guilty of using a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide.

I know, it should be longer.

[isawab_user]

Re: America has Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners

I know, it should be longer.

There are people on either side of the sentencing argument.
Many wonder why he's been sentenced at all - mental anguish, sure but it was not a decision to kill.
On the other side is the privacy argument.

All in all, one messy situation.

[becroce]

Re: America has Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners

:jkk:

Thank you for posting this article. It's quite revealing and brutally honest.

yep

freedom of press is a marvelous achievement. We should cherish it

[BubbleGum]

Re: America has Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners

Looking at the US incarceration rate over the last century in this graph, it has increased over five fold. This seems like a bad thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U....25_onwards.png


Then look at the violent crime rate over the last 50 years. There seems to be a corresponding trend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vi...ted_States.svg

Make of that what you will

~Bub