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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: 1 in 136 U.S. Residents Behind Bars |
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Land of the free indeed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060521/ap_on_re_us/prison_population
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WASHINGTON - Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.
The total on June 30, 2005, was 56,428 more than at the same time in 2004, the government reported Sunday. That 2.6 percent increase from mid-2004 to mid-2005 translates into a weekly rise of 1,085 inmates.
Of particular note was the gain of 33,539 inmates in jails, the largest increase since 1997, researcher Allen J. Beck said. That was a 4.7 percent growth rate, compared with a 1.6 percent increase in people held in state and federal prisons.
Prisons accounted for about two-thirds of all inmates, or 1.4 million, while the other third, nearly 750,000, were in local jails, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Beck, the bureau's chief of corrections statistics, said the increase in the number of people in the 3,365 local jails is due partly to their changing role. Jails often hold inmates for state or federal systems, as well as people who have yet to begin serving a sentence.
"The jail population is increasingly unconvicted," Beck said. "Judges are perhaps more reluctant to release people pretrial."
The report by the Justice Department agency found that 62 percent of people in jails have not been convicted, meaning many of them are awaiting trial.
Overall, 738 people were locked up for every 100,000 residents, compared with a rate of 725 at mid-2004. The states with the highest rates were Louisiana and Georgia, with more than 1 percent of their populations in prison or jail. Rounding out the top five were Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
The states with the lowest rates were Maine, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Men were 10 times to 11 times more likely than women to be in prison or jail, but the number of women behind bars was growing at a faster rate, said Paige M. Harrison, the report's other author.
The racial makeup of inmates changed little in recent years, Beck said. In the 25-29 age group, an estimated 11.9 percent of black men were in prison or jails, compared with 3.9 percent of Hispanic males and 1.7 percent of white males.
Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, which supports alternatives to prison, said the incarceration rates for blacks were troubling.
"It's not a sign of a healthy community when we've come to use incarceration at such rates," he said.
Mauer also criticized sentencing guidelines, which he said remove judges' discretion, and said arrests for drug and parole violations swell prisons.
"If we want to see the prison population reduced, we need a much more comprehensive approach to sentencing and drug policy," he said |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| No I don't, but I know that US executions are on par with China and Saudi Arabia. For a country that professes to be better than some of these countries you guys sure don't act like it. Do as I say not as I do? |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| comparable statistics from any number of Middle Eastern, East Asian, Latin American, African, or other industrialized states |
are you kidding Gopher??? (and aren't you gone from korea for good? maybe i got you mixed up with someone else who said he was outta here last winter)
America is clearly the world's leading jailer, with only Russia (read: still Soviet thinking) and South Africa anywhere near them. (China has very little PER CAPITA - but with over a billion citizens, the total number is relatively high)
America has SIX TIMES the percentage (per 100,000 citizens) of incarcerated compared to Europe, nearly seven times that of Canada.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/world.htm
I think it all comes down to guns. America has nearly six times the murder rate of Europe and most of those involve handguns.
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0405-07.htm
The US is 4th in the world, more than that great beacon of freedom Saudi Arabia. China is way ahead but they have way more people too, so thats to be expected. I didnt put those people in jail or execute them, the most free country on Earth did. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject: Re: 1 in 136 U.S. Residents Behind Bars |
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| Octavius Hite wrote: |
| Land of the free indeed. |
There is no freedom to be a criminal. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| You're right, those people who CHOOSE to put something their body deserve to be in jail. The fact is that the war on drugs has been such a huge failure that this is the end result a country either in jail, poor or in the military. You know the war has been lost when its easier to get drugs than on the street. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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Lol, Ah Gopher I missed you, either a self-hating Canadian who is angry that his white skin never got him a great job so it must be the fault of Canada's social policies, I bet you really hate affrimitive action. Or an American whose so guilty and self-concious about what has been done in his name he responds with venom. BTW, the link I posted from Common Dreams was a report from Amnesty International, but you keep on attacking Canadians for bringing up news. And also the report about the exploding prison population is not just on Yahoo but on:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12901873/ |
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Gopher
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Ur right we must be serious on Dave's ESL cafe board, with such a broad spectrum open minds, such as yours, the debate must remain focused and serious. Lol. And because the US openly publishes its data, that makes what it does right? The logic of you right-wing nutters always makes me chuckle. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Gopher
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| So you're just mad that nobody listens to you. I understand your pain. Anytime you want to talk give me a call, I'm a good listener. |
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