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Gitmo Blues: Don't Worry Closing Guantanamo Won't Endanger America's Lead in Global Incarceration

By Jonathan Simor

Daily Show host Jon Stewart last night skewered Republicans who have been decrying the closing of Guantanamo and suggesting that Americans ought to be terrified by the prospect of having Gitmo terrorists like Khalid Sheik Muhammed housed in American prisons by pointing out that the USA is simply number one in the world when it comes to locking up people. [Watch the episode, may be time limited].Indeed, there is something comical about the degree to which mass incarceration remains invisible to American political leaders both left and right. On the left, lawyers, activists and politicians have decried Guantanamo without mention of the fact that preemptively locking up members of a dangerous class has been our policy toward domestic urban insecurity for decades...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).