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Poo Bear
Pod Team
Joined: 14 Oct 2002
Posts: 4107
Location: Sheffield, UK
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 Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:01 am Post subject: USA statistics |
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I know statistics can be manipulated to prove anything, but this one makes alarming reading. Is it true?
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Chrisj
Joined: 28 Oct 2006
Posts: 95
Location: Oxford, UK
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, it's true. And actually, things are worse than that. Partly because of the appalling bias in the system ("minorities" are about 30% of the US population, and also account for about 30% of drug reports made by the police - and 50% of drug-related arrests, and 70% of drug-related prison sentences), but also because of the scary way the system is set up. US privately run prisons use the prisoners, basically, as slave labour to enrich their owners. Plus they get a nice annual sum from the government! So there's a powerful lobby to increase the size of the prison population, because every extra prisoner means extra money for the bosses and shareholders.... |
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Konedima
Grammar Police
Joined: 25 Oct 2003
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Location: Sydney, Land of Censorship
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| Considering the country was founded as a prison colony, I'd say Australia's doing pretty well for itself. |
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