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Swampfox10mm
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Kuros
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Whoa.
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| Justices upheld an order from a three-judge panel in California that called for releasing 38,000 to 46,000 prisoners. Since then, the state has transferred about 9,000 state inmates to county jails. As a result, the total prison population is now about 32,000 more than the capacity limit set by the panel. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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Don't we rank like #1 in number of incarcerated?
It's kind of like when I tease my students about them being in competition with Russia for #1 in alcohol consumption per capita. Dubious achievement. The Soviet Union had a pretty low crime rate, too. But then they had god-knows-how-many millions locked up in gulags in Siberia.
There is something fundamentally wrong. |
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