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...AND THROW AWAY THE KEY

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

The US has 5% of the earth's population.The US has 70& of the earth's lawyers (most of them waiting in line to get into the REGJB). And the US has 25% of the earth's prisoners.Those are the statistics in this startling article in the NY Times:PRISONERSHere are some other highlights: China- that bastion of godless communism with no respect for individual rights, has four times the population of the US, and one million less prisoners (2.6 million versus 1.6 million). 1 in 100 American adults are locked away in prison.From the Times article:It used to be that Europeans came to the United States to study its prison systems. They came away impressed.?In no country is criminal justice administered with more mildness than in the United States,? Alexis de Tocqueville, who toured American penitentiaries in 1831, wrote in ?Democracy in America...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).