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Why Is the U.S. Prison Population So Large?
/www.learnliberty.org ^ | January 7, 2013 | Speaker Daniel D'Amico

Posted on 01/13/2013 10:41:06 AM PST by redreno

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1 posted on 01/13/2013 10:41:10 AM PST by redreno
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To: redreno

Links not working. Server not found?


2 posted on 01/13/2013 10:49:07 AM PST by Mobilemitter (We must learn to fin >-)> for ourselves.........)
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To: redreno

democratic rule in big cities....they don’t deal with criminals. Now if a bit of actual real justice got dished out as deterrents, you might somewhere but the criminals know the system is gamed and they can get away with most things, the criminals get locked up and they know prison is a cakewalk these days as well as them having more rights than victims.


3 posted on 01/13/2013 10:49:30 AM PST by sunmars
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George Soros thanks you for helping with his drug legalization efforts.


4 posted on 01/13/2013 10:50:03 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: redreno

Too much carbs, too little exercise.


5 posted on 01/13/2013 10:54:38 AM PST by Gadsden1st
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To: redreno

Take away death penalty.
Lock people away for a long time for seemingly petty offenses.
Lock illegals up rather than deport them and have a decent border defense system so as to keep them out.
When people get sent to prison, give them all the libraries, free schooling, weight lifting, flat screen TVs, drugs etc etc to keep them ‘calm’.

The great (not quite ‘late’) Mayor For Life of Washington DC once made the observation ‘ When asked why ‘they’ wouldn’t shut down the DC Jail/Prison in Lorton VA (some 50 miles away) ‘hizonnor’ said (to the effect)
“If we didn’t send them to Lorton some of these boys would NEVER get out of southeast DC”
Other GREAT Marionisms
“Why wouldn’t they want to go to jail? They have everything there they don’t have at home”.
“DC is a great city - take away the murders”.
“THE BITCH set me up”.
Which, BTW, was probably the first run in he had that HE didn’t intentionally break any laws....YES, she did set him up...he may (probably would) have partaken when he was finished but he was obviously only after a booty call and she wouldn’t let him till he took her ‘30 pieces of silver’.

I still think it would have been ‘great’ when that female FBI agent delivered the ‘goodies’ to the room, IF he would have grabbed her and called security on her.....

Of course I enjoy pulling ONE wing off a fly so he runs himself to death in a circle.


6 posted on 01/13/2013 10:54:57 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: redreno

because welfare pays sociopaths to have more children


7 posted on 01/13/2013 10:57:48 AM PST by hecht (america 9/11, Israel 24/7)
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“When people get sent to prison, give them all the libraries, free schooling, weight lifting, flat screen TVs, drugs etc etc to keep them ‘calm’.”

LET’S not forget the free sex.


8 posted on 01/13/2013 10:58:40 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: redreno

http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/topics/drug-policy-reform

From the link at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations:

“Prohibition-based policies have led to a rise in drug-related violence, prison overcrowding, and an increase in HIV epidemics. The Open Society Foundations support organizations that put forward alternatives.”

Another link there, specifically regarind U.S. drug policy:

http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/topics/drug-policy-reform-united-states

From the link:

“The Open Society Foundations support drug policy reform efforts in the United States that address the health, safety, and social harms associated with drug use and drug markets, while reducing the high levels of incarceration, racial injustice, and violation of individual rights associated with current drug policy.”

Perhaps you did not know that you are, in effect, a useful tool of Open Society Institute when you post things arguing for drug legalization.

Considering FR is not a website that supports Open Society and globalist elites, nor is it supported by OSI, I fail to see the wisdom in promoting OSI strategies here that are designed to destroy American morals, society and prosperity.

IMHO.


9 posted on 01/13/2013 11:02:19 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: hecht

Because a certain segment of the population commits crimes way out of proportion to their numbers.


10 posted on 01/13/2013 11:02:56 AM PST by Signalman
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To: redreno
cause RATS breed criminals that breed more RAT criminals???
11 posted on 01/13/2013 11:07:06 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: PieterCasparzen

Carrie Nation, the Capone and Kennedy cartels thank you too.


12 posted on 01/13/2013 11:08:15 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: Signalman

Because prison isn’t prison any more, just an extension of gangland that continues to operate on the indside. Nowadays, guards wear body armor and prisoners can get college educations. Our prison system was undone by polluting the minds of thought leaders in America with the idea of taking prisoner “rights” to the extreme. Most thought leaders in America are now indoctrinated leftist or globalist (or both) robots (whether they know it or not).


13 posted on 01/13/2013 11:12:55 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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Interesting thanks redreno.- "people in prison for nonviolent drug crimes" - Someone I know, used to work with state prisoners said that everyone of them claimed they were not guilty of their conviction [for one reason or another] but a minute later would talk of the crimes they did and got away with. He said he heard this often. So when you hear of nonviolent offenders remember some just didn't get caught being violent.
14 posted on 01/13/2013 11:14:03 AM PST by virgil283 ( *- Never give the devil a ride. He will always want to drive.-*)
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No they don’t - I love wine, beer, cognac especially.


15 posted on 01/13/2013 11:18:14 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: redreno

Two things - the myth of the “non-violent drug user languishing away in prison” is just that - a myth. I don’t believe for one second that there are any significant number of people doing time because they decided to fire up a joint or a bong. What I do think is that people who are criminally inclined also enjoy their recreational drugs. Those that say if we only legalized X - we’d have half as many people in prison - are probably themselves smoking X. It just ain’t so, in my opinion.

Secondly, it’s objectively true that crime statistics (which you can believe or take with a grain of salt) show that violent crime as gone down over the course of the decades. Some of that is probably due to demographics - as a rule younger people commit more crimes than older ones. But also some of this is due to incarceration of violent offenders.

To me it seems like you can have empty prisons and dangerous streets or you can have full prisons and comparatively safer streets. While nothing is all or none, all black or all white, as a general rule the more offenders you incarcerate, the fewer crimes you will have. It just makes sense. Where you draw the line is of course open to question, but relatively speaking there will be a correlation.


16 posted on 01/13/2013 11:27:49 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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Anwser: We gave up hangings!


17 posted on 01/13/2013 11:29:18 AM PST by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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To: redreno

Answer: We gave up hangings!


18 posted on 01/13/2013 11:29:40 AM PST by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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To: sunmars

Prisons in general have become like a form of institutionalization of the welfare system, with built-in
entitlements never to be reduced (except for Joe Arpaio)
or threatened with extinction. It’s evolved disgracefully into a hothouse for continued criminality and a perfect meet and greet arena for future criminality. It is also a lucrative taxpayer funded enterprise and industry for those involved in new prisons and the big bucks involved in the maintainence of existing prisons. It is also another area, like everything else is this unruly land of ours, where we will NEVER get anything like an honest discussion of what is wrong, what went wrong, and how disgraceful has been our avoidance of coming to terms with the real social, moral and economic costs of maintaining so many people in these ‘warehouses’ , where the REAL and TRUE objectives should be both the redemption of souls and the moral and practical rebuilding of shattered and socially dangerous identities.
The question “why is it so large?” is the wrong focus, and that’s a question that has led to the practical solution of
automatic release of still-unreconstructed people into a society where the easiest thing for them to do for
“re-entry” is to return to a life of crime.


19 posted on 01/13/2013 11:30:30 AM PST by supremedoctrine
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The United States houses more human beings in prisons than any other country,

Number two is Russia

Number three is Uganda, of all places.

20 posted on 01/13/2013 11:35:27 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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