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20 Apr 2011, 11:50 am

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20 Apr 2011, 12:13 pm

One other little factoid:

Most of our prison population is in rural areas that typically vote Republican.

At Census time, the prison population is counted as part of the community where the prison sits.

This brings down per capita income figures dramatically.

So, the communities get tons of goodies from the government (due to the deflated per capita income figures), none of which is shared with the prisoners.

Also, when congressional districts are drawn, the prisoners are counted as residing within the prisons where they reside, while most of the prisoners actually came from the large cities, and very few of them are eligible to vote.



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20 Apr 2011, 1:42 pm

Prisons are considered to be the answer to the crisis of Small Town America. All of those depressed towns chasing prisons.



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20 Apr 2011, 4:37 pm

People who did what Rush Limbaugh went to prison in large numbers. But, he's a rich white man, so he doesn't have to go to prison. Prison is for poor people and minorities.



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20 Apr 2011, 4:55 pm

pandabear wrote:
People who did what Rush Limbaugh went to prison in large numbers. But, he's a rich white man, so he doesn't have to go to prison. Prison is for poor people and minorities.


Tell that to Bernie Madoff who is in for life.

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20 Apr 2011, 4:57 pm

ruveyn wrote:
pandabear wrote:
People who did what Rush Limbaugh went to prison in large numbers. But, he's a rich white man, so he doesn't have to go to prison. Prison is for poor people and minorities.


Tell that to Bernie Madoff who is in for life.

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A scape goat for a much larger problem.

Who says that we don't have human sacrifices today?


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20 Apr 2011, 5:23 pm

throw people in jail is a tool our government use to keep unemployment rate low in order to justify socialist measure( like minimum wage ) that increase unemployement



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20 Apr 2011, 5:35 pm

Scooter Libby didn't have to go to jail. President Bush, who was otherwise proud of his execution record in Texas, said

"I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby's sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison. ... My decision to commute his prison sentence leaves in place a harsh punishment for Mr. Libby. The reputation he gained through his years of public service and professional work in the legal community is forever damaged."

Aw...Poor Scooter.. :cry:



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20 Apr 2011, 5:36 pm

LibertarianAS wrote:
throw people in jail is a tool our government use to keep unemployment rate low in order to justify socialist measure( like minimum wage ) that increase unemployement


Glad you're willing to work for $1 an hour


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20 Apr 2011, 6:06 pm

And Libertarians claim that they don't lack empathy. :roll:



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20 Apr 2011, 6:20 pm

pandabear wrote:
And Libertarians claim that they don't lack empathy. :roll:


empathy is for p*****s



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20 Apr 2011, 7:13 pm

xenon13 wrote:
Prisons are considered to be the answer to the crisis of Small Town America. All of those depressed towns chasing prisons.


This is very true and probably while we'll never see the decriminalization of drugs or anything else for that matter. We're creating a prison system that is essentially "too big to fail".



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20 Apr 2011, 8:56 pm

LibertarianAS wrote:
pandabear wrote:
And Libertarians claim that they don't lack empathy. :roll:


empathy is for p*****s


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21 Apr 2011, 12:43 am

Most people I've met who've been incarcerated were there because they did something stupid.

For example, returning from buying drugs in a car with expired tags and burnt out light, and making a turn without signaling, when they really should have been meeting with their probation officer that moment due to a previous act of stupidity.

That being said, most individuals I've known who have been incarcerated have been habitually stupid.

I'm sure there are people who are incarcerated for not so stupid things but they don't constitute the vast majority of the population incarcerated at any given moment.



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21 Apr 2011, 1:56 am

I prefair this prison thank :wink:

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21 Apr 2011, 5:40 am

LibertarianAS wrote:

empathy is for p*****s


This explains the sh*t you spew SO well.


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