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": a new Dallas city ordinance allows
*   police TO ARREST AND SEARCH PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE DRUG DEALERS.

We've come a long way from 'presumed innocent'.

Now: presumed potentially guilty.

*   "Riot May Push Md. to Expedite Prison Building", The Washington Post
*   
*   An inmate riot last week at one of Maryland's most crowded and violent
*   prisons will help force the state to consider a more rapid pace of
*   prison construction, key state legislators said.

This level of monitoring has given us a world record % of prison population.

So much for 'The Land of the Free'.

*   As a result, over 100 inmates were transferred to the state's "super-
*   maximum" prison. Signs of looming trouble became evident weeks ago.

Signs of looming trouble have been ignored for years.

#   "Notes and Comment", The New Yorker, April 13, 1992
#   
#   Traditionally, vast prison systems have adorned tyrannies.
#   
#   However, due to mandatory minimum sentencing and the profitable War on
#   Drugs (due to a 1978 Federal forfeiture law), the United States has
#   become the unchallenged world leader in incarceration rates.
#   
#   We are so far ahead of every other nation we can be rest assured of
#   remaining No. 1 for many years.
#   
#   What kind of society are we hoping to create by this policy of wholesale
#   incarceration? What will these millions of branded people, most of them
#   unskilled, uneducated, and brutalized by imprisonment, be prepared to do
#   when they emerge after many years?


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