1 in very 100 adults is in jail
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/28/....ap/index.html
NEW YORK (AP) -- For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report.
San Quentin State Prison in California holds more than 5,200 inmates.
The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said.
Using updated state-by-state data, the report said 2,319,258 adults were held in U.S. prisons or jails at the start of 2008 -- one out of every 99.1 adults, and more than any other country in the world.
The steadily growing inmate population "is saddling cash-strapped states with soaring costs they can ill afford and failing to have a clear impact either on recidivism or overall crime," the report said.
So A says to B.... a lesson in logic
Child's first logic mistakes
Child: The Easter bunny exists
A: How do you know?
Child: My mommy says so
Without proper education this will either become:
College child dumass just took first semester with liberal professors (ccdjtfswlp): The US government sends people to prison for anything
B: Really, what do you mean
ccdjtfswlp: like, they send people to jail for nothing
B: who told you that?
ccdjtfswlp: Like my professors told me maaaann
B: Can you show me some evidence?
ccdjtfswlp: Just look around man, can't you see it?
Conservative white trash has life so bad needs to blame on someone else guy (cswthlsbntbseg): Did you know the liberal government hired the same mersonary guy to kill the branch dividians, the ruby ridge, and all the right wing heroes??
B: really, how do you know?
cswthlsbntbseg: Radio guy told me
B: And who told radio guy
cswthlsbntbseg: he thinked it up, being he's real smart and all
cough cough They're taking our jobs!!!