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To: Slapshot68
" For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison,..."

I don't want to change the subject but what does that say about our society?

7 posted on 02/28/2008 9:19:15 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (In November, we're going to be able to elect politicians who say they can change the weather. YAY!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

see post 5


9 posted on 02/28/2008 9:20:19 AM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character; Being Coddled Destroys Character)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“” For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison,...”

I don’t want to change the subject but what does that say about our society?”

It tells me two things....1) there is a noticeable correlation between moral degradation and rising prison population and 2) we actually punish our criminals, for the most part.


11 posted on 02/28/2008 9:20:58 AM PST by Slapshot68
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We aren’t working hard enough to put more of them in there. Let’s start, for example, on Wall Street.


17 posted on 02/28/2008 9:27:51 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: FlingWingFlyer
It could be saying....

The people are sick of crime, and placing these criminals in jail. Where they belong.

It could be saying...we are sending some wrong folks to jail. ( i.e. Some relatively minor drug offenses..in some states...get out of proportion jail sentences..)

It could be saying.....liberal policies are failing.

I have a small solution. Hang, shoot, electrocute, the one's that we know, that we know, that we know...did the murder, rape, torture. That right there would clear out some room...in the prisons.

Molon Labe

37 posted on 02/28/2008 10:33:02 AM PST by Osage Orange (Hillary's heart is darker than the devil's riding boots.................)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“what does that say about our society?”

it says we’re losing the war against our own government, where probably every single person breaks at least one law per day, and ignorance of the law is now excuse.

not to change the subject or anything, but what does that say about our government ?


42 posted on 02/28/2008 10:53:33 AM PST by stompk
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