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Senator Webb said there were three possible explanations for this: Those other countries are less concerned with crime, which is bunk; or Americans are uniquely tempted by and addicted to crime, which is also bunk; or there is something fundamentally amiss in the U.S. criminal-justice system (bingo).

Sorry but the bingo is bunk too. The real reason our incarceration rate is so much higher than other industrialized nation is that we have a certain demographic in our population that they do not. This demo, as a whole, has proved to be violent and criminal. I don't care what anyone says I see it every day where I live.

Many of the people who are violent prisoners did not start out that way, but were transformed when they were subjected to,great violence in the system. The majority of prisoners, if they were kept separate from violent thugs, would be reasonably happy to serve their sentences reasonably quietly.

I think a lot of the problem is with people who are raised with no moral or spiritual instruction. Like most people in our consumer culture they are exposed to all the wonderful things that can be had: nice cars, clothes, houses, etc. But lacking a moral center they don’t follow the normal route for obtaining these things I.E. work hard, get educated, save money. With a lack of morals they take “shortcuts”. IOW they steal, sell drugs, rob, rape and kill. Complicit in this amoral subculture is liberals and progressives who promote a sense of entitlement. They tell people that they have a “right” to the good life, wthout engaging in any work to secure said life. Right after I got my drivers license I told my dad I wanted a car. He left and came back a few minutes later with the paper. He told me “part time jobs are in the middle section, used cars are in the back” -end of discussion. That’s what those people needed when they were young, but didn’t get.With some of the worst criminals it wasn’t that they were raised wrong, it’s that they weren’t raised at all. They either raised themselves or were raised by the street. They would’ve been better off being raised by wolves.

“The real reason our incarceration rate is so much higher than other industrialized nation is that we have a certain demographic in our population that they do not. This demo, as a whole, has proved to be violent and criminal. I don’t care what anyone says I see it every day where I live.”

Martha Stewart spent 5 months in our jail system. For WHAT? She’s not violent. She was ensnared by a simple lie. For that reason alone, she was incarcerated.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/16/news/newsmakers/martha_sentencing/