Here’s some news.
From the WhapPo.
Read on if you dare.
AttiCA AttiCA AttiCA
Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison
By N.C. Aizenman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 28, 2008; 11:57 AMMore than one in 100 adults Americans is in jail or prison, an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year, in addition to more than $5 billion spent by the federal government, according to a report released today.
With more than 2.3 million people behind bars at the start of 2008, the United States leads the world in both the number and the percentage of residents it incarcerates, leaving even far more populous China a distant second, noted the report by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States.
The ballooning prison population is largely the result of tougher state and federal sentencing imposed since the mid-1980s. Minorities have been hit particularly hard: One in nine black men age 20 to 34 is behind bars. For black women age 35 to 39, the figure is one in 100, compared with one in 355 white women in the same age group.
And we wonder why there is a depression in the making here.
Shit.
“In a criminal society, the honest man is the criminal.” Arthur Gilroy. (Yeah, that’s right. Me.)
Prison America.
Our way or the penitentiary way.
Shit!!!
And y’all wonder why I get pissed off when Dems trash Dems.
Shit, motherfuckers!!!
Get on the boat or go down with the fucking ship.
AG
