On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:38:09 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 1/11/2011 10:37 PM, Oren wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:06:58 -0500, wrote:

let's see. america has the highest rate of incarceration in the world.
we have more prisoners than china.

The U.S. does have a large prison population. We use guns to contain
prisoners based on classification and propensity towards violence.

Our penal systems are admired around the world as the best run
facilities in the world.

The Federal system only has 209,494 (Last updated on January 6, 2011 )
Up from 52, 000 in 1979. You can look the daily count for each state,
though.

What is really neat is that we don't harvest body parts from prisoners
and sell them on the black market.

Next!


Aren't most of the prisoners in there because of drug charges?

No. I saw a study a little while back of the NYS penal system. There was
*ONE* person incarcerated for drug offenses alone.