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In article 
<albert.finney000-0B5F04.13574201032008@news-server.tx.rr.com>,
 Al <albert.finney000@geemail.coom> wrote:

> In article <ou1js35cguc9gu9gjskhk3nu0acbh8pkq8@4ax.com>,
>  wbyeats@ireland.com wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:33:35 -0600, Al <albert.finney000@geemail.coom>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > >In article <c46gs3di7e4dggt92kn6ur57ate695c9oq@4ax.com>,
> > > user@nospam.nul wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:56:07 -0600, Al <albert.finney000@geemail.coom>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> >In article <cljfs3dd52teo0ri1kbo84urdusl14l9nm@4ax.com>,
> > >> > user@nospam.nul wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> 1 in 100 adults now in prison
> > >> >> 2,319,258 Americans behind bars in 2008, most of any nation
> > >> >
> > >> >Now Bush is making people commit crimes.
> > >> 
> > >> Cute.
> > >
> > >It was your header.
> > >
> > >> Now, see if you can be equally cute pondering why the US
> > >> imprisons more people on a percentage basis than any other "free" or
> > >> communist country on earth.  Use extra cuteness.
> > >
> > >My guess is that law enforcement is becoming more efficient through 
> > >technology, combined with the influx of people and the disaster of LBJ's 
> > >Great Society.
> > 
> > And you be ........... totally wrong. The crime rate is not up much.
> > What has happened is a combo of longer sentences with no parole, 3
> > strikes laws, and the idiocy of imprisoning minor drug offenders. Why
> > don't you read the article before adding your inane comments? Or can't
> > you read?
> 
> I cannot read, sorry, but actually the crime rate has been declining for 
> years, decades.
> 
> I wonder if there's any correlation, or as the NYT wonders at least once 
> a year "if crime is down, why are we building more prisons?"
> 
> So puzzling.

The largest percentage increase - 12 percent - was in Kentucky, where
Gov. Steve Beshear highlighted the cost of corrections in his budget
speech last month. He noted that the state's crime rate had increased
only about 3 percent in the past 30 years, while the state's inmate
population has increased 600 percent.

Very puzzling.
-- 

Billy

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