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To: Razzz42

When the phalanx of freepers invariably comment on this thread about how we have a criminal problem and not a prison industrial complex problem, ask them just how many Americans per 100k population would need to be incarcerated before they’d consider the problem to be the prison-industrial complex, and not the criminality of the population.


5 posted on 03/29/2012 8:06:21 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: JerseyHighlander
" . . . ask them just how many Americans per 100k population would need to be incarcerated before they’d consider the problem to be the prison-industrial complex, and not the criminality of the population."

If you are a male, 26 years of age, you have a one in four chance of incarceration on any given day.

9 posted on 03/29/2012 8:14:17 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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