Why does the USA have so many people in jail?

Damn. I wanted to say that.

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"Religion is the best business to be in. It's the only one where the customers blame themselves for product failure."
-- Ellis Weiner (quoted on the NAiG message board)

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American law-and-order advocates will say: Of course! We put more of our bad guys in jail!

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"We convict more people and treat them more harshly than any industrialized democracy on the planet. And our efforts have paid off: our murder rate is now slightly less overwhelmingly larger than Britain's!"To be honest, I really can see law and order types saying that.

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Speaking personally, I find few things more awesome than contemplating this vast and majestic process of evolution, the ebb and flow of successive biotas through geological time. Creationists and others who cannot for ideological or religious reasons accept the fact of evolution miss out a great deal, and are left with a claustrophobic little universe in which nothing happens and nothing changes.
-- M. Alan Kazlev