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Then arrest just enough to fill up the prisons. You think America could ever run short on prison space? Prisons are our fastest growing form of housing.
by dragonikola 13y ago
Then arrest just enough to fill up the prisons. You think America could ever run short on prison space? Prisons are our fastest growing form of housing.
- jmadsen 13y agonot gonna sit and go back & forth, but prisons are growing because of current state levels of 115% capacity & federal levels of 136% ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat... ) I'd say they are "all filled up"
- dragonikola 13y agoPrisons are overfilled because there is a will to overfill them. The fact of overfilled prisons supports my point--that the justice system is happy & eager to fill the prisons to the bursting point. Instead of letting prisoners go free or reducing the number of prosecutions, the response has been to build more prisons. This won't stop anytime soon and supports my point.