1 in every 100 Americans are in jail. How do you feel about this?
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Makes me wonder if 1% is high enough.
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when they get locked up for drugs they are just wasting prison space that they could be using for rapist and murders but how is it that if you are in a big drug bust you get 800 years in jail and a murder only get 1 life sentence. out goverment they way they lock people up is so stupid. you murder you get out in 30-50 yrs but if you get cought with a couple of a milling dollars worth of weed your fucked.
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thankful that 99% are not.
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In California, we passed a bill that required counseling/rehabilitation for drug offenders, but nothing came of it. They were supposed to be hospitalized, not jailed. What I don't get is how can a man who has killed two people manage to get out and kill again? http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/769771.html
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I try not to (feel anything about it, that is. What can I do? *Most* of them are they because of something they did or didn't do, legally, aren't they?).
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safe
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I heard about that. In a way, it's frightening, but then again, I feel quite a bit safer.
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1 in ever hundred lawyers failed to do their job?
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I'll tell you this much. Prison is no place to be. I know this 1st hand.
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One percent... makes me feel like we live in a very civilized society.. it could be much higher.
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1 in every 100 are in jail. According to the rules, eighty more, of those 100, should be in jail. For trying pot once. Once. If any of the presidential candidates have ever tried pot, they belong in jail. Again, according to the rules. Eighty. What am I thinking? Ninety-five percent, of U.S. citizens belong behind bars.
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Sad
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I think it's a sad state of affairs... makes me wonder if your approach on 'justice' or law and order really works... doesn't seem to stop people from commiting crimes... the death penalty and the like. Especially the rich who from where i stand can get away with anything (outsiders perspective perhaps)
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Sad That's what happens when you have a government that cuts after school programs and programs to help educate it's people.
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There probably should be some better parenting involved.
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It makes me wonder how many of them are actually a threat to society (or innocent) and how many of dangerous criminals are walking free because there just isn't enough room in jail/prison.
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Then again some ohter countries don't have many criminals in prison because they kill more of them. It is sad though. Especially to wonder how many of them are wrongly convicted and how many more people who SHOULD be in prison are out walking the streets freely. I wonder if the increase in immigration, legal or illegal has any correlation to the increase in violent crimes, or crimes in general. Don't get me wrong, it's just speculation, I don't care where you're from if you're a good person, etc, but I know in like the 40s & 50s (I'm only 24 so I could be wrong) women could feel a lot safer walking home at night. I also see a lot of negative treatment of women in many other cultures (from other countries). Just wondering out loud. Sorry if anyone was offended, please don't take it that way because I get upset when I see offensive posts. I don't mean it to be, if it came out that way it's miscommunication.
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It's a bit sad, especially those jailed for crimes they didn't commit.
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Not to discredit, but what is your source? I've read many statistics and there are varied numbers. The current estimate from the US Census is that 1 out of 32 Americans are under correctional control, and I've also read that 1 in 162 are in jail/prison. I find it odd that there is no solid source for this information.
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so you have a computer in prison ?, wow.
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I'm very grateful. Of all the new people I meet, at least 1 of every 100 is a complete and total disaster. I wager that in ten years, an increase to 2% will be observed. More than that and they might start dipping into the good guys, and we can't have that.
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Considering how many ought to be in jail, it makes me want to buy a gun. Considering how much we're paying for a system that does very little to reform prisoners, but in many cases helps to turn them even deeper down the path of the career criminal, it makes me want to send more of them to the chair. (I don't want them in jail to "pay their debt to society", I want jail to benefit society and the individual by actually leading to correction in behavior. To the extent that it doesn't, we might as well be killing people for all the worth we promote in their lives. Granted, many do reform, but I think the environment is hardly optimal for that purpose.) Considering the abuses one hears of occurring in prisons, it's a very depressing statistic indeed. Considering what they might do if they weren't in prison, I feel grateful, at least that I don't have an added 1/100 chance of being a victim. (Considering many would likely be multiple offenders without jail to get in their way, 1/100 might be a gross underestimate. Considering the possibility of false convictions and such, such a possibility may not be as bad as all that.)
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I'm glad, I'm out!
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Safer.
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That one American is being better fed than the other 99............
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cuz we gangsta like that
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It should be 1 in 50
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That's not true. In 2007 there were 2,299,116 incarcerate. Roughly 375,000 of those were illegal aliens. Some of these were also legal foreign nationals, but I can't seem to find a number. All of those non-Americans would have to be removed. The population of the US in 2007 was estimated to be 301,139,947. You do the math. That number is WAY off...by more than 300%. How do I feel about this number? Disgusted that so many people feel obliged to break the laws to the point that they actually get incarcerated.
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Just goes to show that the Congress and the 50 State Legislatures are out of control writing law and passing new laws. The more laws they write and pass the more people will continue to end up in prison.
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Each day I arrive home safely, I thank God I'm didn't become a statistic... -
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upset its not 2 in every 100
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Well, considering that a large amount of them are in prison for drug related crimes, all of which are stupid and pointless, I feel pretty disgusted.
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we need more land
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Fine with it as long as they deserve it
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I can name 2 groups of 100 and 454 who should be there with them
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if you pulled a hundred americans out of a crowd, none of them would be in jail.
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For whatever reason, New Zealand has an even higher imprisonment rate - about 144 per 100,000 people, one of the highest prison populations in the world. It's hard to make a comparison across exchange rates etc. but it cost $4 a day to feed a prisoner here in 2002, so given the huge hike in food costs that's probably at least $6 now. I am astonished, Froggy, that you can feed yourself for $2.75 a day. In my house it costs $6 - $8 and that's low compared to most households plus we supplement it with garden produce etc. Can I have a comparison, say a loaf of bread here costs ave $3; 3litre milk $4.50. I am curious. I don't know how our prisons manage to feed anyone on $4 a day either - but there are initiatives to make them more self-sufficient with gardens etc. It's not my impression that they eat anything other than basic food.
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that they shouldn't have broke the law.
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Considering how much evil there is in the world...that's nothing.
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It tells me that if you have money, you have a better chance of not going to jail, when you commit a crime. I was in the penitentiary for a year, and guess what? It was full of poor people. Those rich corporate crooks can do the crime, but don't generally have to do the time. They're screwing over more people than I ever dreamed of...and getting away with it. That's why the number should be higher.
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We are definatly a police state now
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I feel you need to brush up on your arithmetic that you were taught in grade school. just another uneducated child that believes whatever he/she reads.
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I have never been to prison but I heard its a horrible place to be you have no privacy and your being told what to do all the time. I feel bad for some of them some inamtes are just avergaes joes who got caught up in the heat of the moment and made poor judgement everyone deserves a second chance
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