Some choice quotes:
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"We need to be smarter," said David Muhlhausen, a criminal justice expert with the conservative Heritage Foundation. "We're not incarcerating all the people who commit serious crimes -- but we're also probably incarcerating people who don't need to be."
Probably? Gee, ya think? I'm sure glad we're locking people up and throwing away the key for marijuana use...those filthy bastards are ruining society.
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"For all the money spent on corrections today, there hasn't been a clear and convincing return for public safety," said the project's director, Adam Gelb. "More and more states are beginning to rethink their reliance on prisons for lower-level offenders and finding strategies that are tough on crime without being so tough on taxpayers."
Rethinking is grand, but can we actually do something or just keep paying folks to "think" about it? I'm so sick and tired of more and more time and money being wasted on harsher and harsher legislation that has NO RETURN WHATSOEVER and people just *shrug* and say, it's for the children. Good christ, I UNDERSTAND it's a fantastic way to push yourself forward politically (who wants to vote against harsher punishments for crime, eh?), but people need to wake the **** up and see what's really happening. Sheep.
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The report said the United States is the world's incarceration leader, far ahead of more populous China with 1.5 million people behind bars. It said the U.S. also is the leader in inmates per capita (750 per 100,000 people), ahead of Russia (628 per 100,000) and other former Soviet bloc nations which make up the rest of the Top 10
Yeah...good thing we don't live in that scary China.
Nexa