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Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons

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SpankyMcLankey

Empty the Prisons? Then what? Fill them up again? What a terrible title.

Dr. ShinDig

we just have more laws here, thats all.

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Waves

the prison system in the united states is completely fucked. if you do not agree you are an idiot and should do some research.
Maybe just empty the non-violent offenders? the victim-less crimes? the drug addicts? the mentally disturbed?

the hundreds of thousands of people that were thrown in jail cuz they got caught with a few grams of weed?

the numbers get even more ridiculous when you take into account there is a huge prison economy that has grown in order to house, feed, etc all the prisoners. and whos paying for it? you and i.

Each inmate costs US taxpayers more than $22,000 a year.

It costs more than i make in a year to house a dude who is living in a cement cell.

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SpankyMcLankey

Oh I completely understand that side of the story, it's just a dumb title and doesn't get the point across nor does it get peoples attention.

Waves

yeah i feel ya i was more addressing the title itself than your reaction to it

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OldMan&TheWeed

Where's China?

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OldMan&TheWeed

Many other countries lock up more people, but for shorter periods of time.

It's easy to get three to five in the land of the free for a relatively minor offence.

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Roach

thought this was all about me.

for some odd reason.

osirus2020

No need for prisons. They just shoot offenders on sight.

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Home Wrecker

America really does have a lot of prisoners but I wouldn't want to be on the other end of that list either. Iceland ok, Afghanistan not so much.

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tedkennedy

afghanistan government cant even enforce its own laws otherwise alot more people would be in jail there

but yes i agree the american prison system is fucked

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matthew munari

The Rev

If we empty the prisons, where will we get our supply of slave labor? C'mon, this isn't China for Christ's sake! We're not going to use political dissidents. We're civilized! We use people who insist on using non-socially accepted drugs, as God intended!



The Rev

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osirus2020

Well I think we have come pretty far considering we are living in a country established by a bunch of prudes.

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