On 23/05/2011 19:57, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 23 May 2011 11:58:40 -0600,
wrote:

On 5/23/2011 10:04 AM, Jim Thompson wrote:
Californica... Bwahahahahahaha!

http://tinyurl.com/3ws8gvx

...Jim Thompson

How many will they ship off to Arizona ??

We do have too many people in prison here, partly due to the Three
Strikes thing promoted by the prison guards union. You can go to
prison for life for a non-violent crime.

That is what appeals most to an ignorant scared and vengeful US public.
They never could grasp the idea of reforming and (re)educating minor
criminals to make them into good citizens. Populist demagogues just want
to lock 'em up as cheaply as possible and throw away the key.

And too many people in for minor drug things.

But gotta have the "War on Drugs" to keep prices good and high to help
maximise drug lord profits on the illegal distribution network.

Google Arizona prisons to see what a great job they are doing.

I expect it is a really great way to obtain a more complete training for
life as a professional criminal. Better underworld contacts and improved
technical methods being fairly obvious consequences of badly thought
through imprisonment regimes. Odd that the "Land of the Free" has the
highest incarceration rate of any major nation and is 6x worse than that
beacon of democracy China (perhaps maybe even as bad as N Korea -
accurate prison figures from there are difficult to obtain).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4481261.stm

The scary thing in America with the rise of gated communities is that
the very rich are now decoupling themselves from the rest of society.
They are just as much prisoners of their fear albeit in a gilded cage.

Regards,
Martin Brown