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America's rush to incarcerate is sign of a moral decline

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

America's rush to incarcerate is sign of a moral decline By RALPH J. DOLAN Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA November 16, 2010 NORTHAMPTON - The other day I was sitting in Starbucks downtown and observed a little flirting going on between a male customer and the woman behind the counter. She asks: What do you do? He reaches into his vest pocket and pulls out a leather folder and flashes his badge. It works just as he hopes. Badge as aphrodisiac! She flutters closer. In low tones he entices her further with an elaboration of his duties in criminal justice. It reminds me of a moment of time when I was in Vietnam. This group I was in had been mercifully exempt from participation in the worst barbarities of that conflict. I would not have survived the war if that had not been true...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 16, 2010 (boomark / email).