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Why does the USA have so many people in jail?

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Coragyps
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04-06-2006 11:24 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by EZscience
04-06-2006 10:30 AM

Like Dan said. This town has a prison with a couple of thousand prisoners, and a large majority of them are there for drug possesion and the like. There's one guy there who was caught with a joint (in the joint) and got 60 years for it. Sixty. Years.
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04-06-2006 1:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 9 by EZscience
04-06-2006 1:06 PM

Re: A different brand of justice for celebrities and the rich
It would also be revealing to post the racial breakdown of our jail population.
Pretty frightening, I'm sure. Hispanic men are hugely overrepresented here in Texas, too. And I saw numbers 20 years ago about Watonga, Oklahoma: Native Americans made up 12% or so of the population but accounted for 90% of all arrests. No "profiling" there...
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09-04-2008 6:44 PM 		Reply to: Message 126 by TheNaturalist
09-04-2008 3:29 PM

the justice system ENTIRELY overreacts to small offenses which might not hurt anyone in any way
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Case in point: 60 years for possession of a joint while already a prisoner in the local state prison.
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That's bullshit. That's barbaric, or worse.
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