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CT: Population soaring in state prisons. Population soaring in state prisons.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Schissler believes the disparity between whites and minorities is "all about poverty." "Many of these people were raised in financially stricken, security stricken, parentally stricken and educationally stricken environments," he said. But he said if the national media -- which spent months probing and anticipating the results of the Iowa presidential caucus -- looked at prison conditions in that state, it would find enormous numbers of young whites in jail after turning to crystal meth and crime. "These are children of generations of farmers who are losing their farms," Schissler said. "These kids are seeing the complete obliteration of everything they've known. These are white kids behaving like inner-city groups, turning to drugs and crime because of poverty...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 17, 2008 (boomark / email).