> would we really want to pay to jail that many more inmates? I would much rather have some of these people in prison than in society. Bomb makers, drug lords,

> would we really want to pay to jail that many more inmates? I would much rather have some of these people in prison than in society. Bomb makers, drug lords, and other violent types absolutely deserve to be put in prison (regardless of the internet's incessant whining about the drug war). edit: As an observation, whenever any sort of political thread comes on HN, the comments overwhelmingly tend to be paranoid horseshit. This is not a judgment about the parent comment, just the entire thread in general.