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", The New Yorker, April 13, 1992
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#   Traditionally, vast prison systems have adorned tyrannies.
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#   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.
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#   We are so far ahead of every other nation we can be rest assured of
#   remaining No. 1 for many years.
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#   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?


This section is also about abusing citizens to control targeted individuals.
Examples are scattered throughout. Here come some now...


*   "1984", author George Orwell, 1949, ISBN 0-679-41739-7
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*   Something crashed onto the bed behind Winston's back. The head of a
*   ladder had been thrust through the window and had burst the frame.
*   Someone was climbing