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Prison report: Who are the bad people? and Canadian Conservatives try to model a system based on the U.S.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison report: Who are the bad people? By Just A Guy Editors note: Just A Guy is an inmate in a California state prison. His dispatches appear twice a week. Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner was recently quoted in the Sacramento Bee saying: ?You have to be a really bad person to get into state prison. So I?m opposed to releasing people who are dangerous, absolutely opposed. That? s no way to balance the budget.? I?m curious to know what Poizner thinks everyone is in prison for. Does he even realize that at least 18 percent of the population is in prison for drug crimes? If so, then is he saying that all people in prison for drugs are ?really bad people?? As if the stigma of being an addict and in prison isn?t enough. I wonder if Poizner thinks alcoholics are ?really bad people? -- or just people who need a 12-step program...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 26, 2009 (boomark / email).