Re: LAND OF THE FREE: America has 25% of the world's prisoners!

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:50:35 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
<jkraus_1999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 28, 11:37 am, "Patriot Games" <Patr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"A Homo from Connecticut" <ultim...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:4814c730.8106070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/23/america/23prison.php
Criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations say
they are mystified and appalled by the number and length of American
prison sentences.

Your "criminologists and legal scholars" are LIARS or RETARDS or both:

Jails (per capita)
#1   Maldives: 2.21996 per 1,000 people
#2   Czech Republic: 2.07646 per 1,000 people
#3   Papua New Guinea: 1.70857 per 1,000 people
#4   Hong Kong: 1.53544 per 1,000 people
#5   Malaysia: 1.09773 per 1,000 people
#6   Montserrat: 0.107055 per 1,000 people
#7   Switzerland: 0.0224329 per 1,000 people
#8   Iceland: 0.0168499 per 1,000 people
#9   Dominica: 0.0144867 per 1,000 people
#10   Botswana: 0.0121951 per 1,000 people
#11   Denmark: 0.0103093 per 1,000 people
#12   Norway: 0.0100152 per 1,000 people
#13   Turkey: 0.00801022 per 1,000 people
#14   Mauritius: 0.00731113 per 1,000 people
#15   Chile: 0.00700832 per 1,000 people
#16   Suriname: 0.00684706 per 1,000 people
#17   Panama: 0.0066879 per 1,000 people
#18   Latvia: 0.00655022 per 1,000 people
#19   Canada: 0.00646243 per 1,000 people
#20   Portugal: 0.00605716 per 1,000 people
#21   Finland: 0.0053609 per 1,000 people
#22   United States: 0.00526825 per 1,000 people

Sentence Length
#1   Colombia: 137
#2   Moldova: 93
#3   Suriname: 91
#4   Qatar: 80
#5   Georgia: 60
#6   Botswana: 60
#7   Latvia: 58
#8   Estonia: 55
#9   Hungary: 52
#10   Belarus: 51
#11   Romania: 48
#12   Dominican Republic: 48
#13   Czech Republic: 39
#14   Australia: 37
#15   Spain: 30
#16   United States: 29http://www.nationmaster.com

"In absolute terms, the United States currently has the largest inmate
population in the world, with more than 2½ million[14] or more than
one in a hundred adults[15] in prison and jails. Although the United
States represents less than 5% of the world's population, over 25% of
the people incarcerated around the world are housed in the American
prison system. Pulitzer Prize winning author Joseph T. Hallinan wrote
in his book Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation, "so common
is the prison experience that the federal government predicts one in
eleven men will be incarcerated in his lifetime, one in four if he is
black." In 2002, both Russia and China also had prison populations in
excess of 1 million.[16] By October 2006, the Russian prison
population declined to 869,814 which translated into 611 prisoners per
100,000 population.

As a percentage of total population, the United States also has the
largest imprisoned population, with 738 people per 100,000 serving
time, awaiting trial or otherwise detained.[17]

In March 2007, the United Kingdom had 80,000 inmates (up from 73,000
in 2003 and 44,000 in 1985) in its facilities, one of the highest
rates among the western members of the European Union (EU) (a record
formerly held by Portugal). The highest imprisonment rates among the
larger EU members include that of Poland, which in August 2007 had
about 90,000 inmates, i.e. 234 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants,[18]
while the highest rates are in the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania with estimated rates of 240, 292 and 333 respectively in
2006.[17]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison

Well, someone's a liar Patriot. Could it be -- GASP!!!! -- YOU???

Countries that execute the worthless criminals of course have a
lower prison population.
Keeping half of this filth alive is the problem. Coddling
criminals results in more criminals. Turning them loose to re-offend
is stupid on the part of the US society.
.

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