BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - Gosh...will shares in prison stock take a nosedive?

F.O.A.D.

On 8/12/13 5:29 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:36:57 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 8/12/13 4:33 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:06:42 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Oh...the United States has about 5% of the world's population and about
25% of the world's incarcerated population. It's good we're still the
leader in something, eh?

We have more crime although I agree the stupid drug laws contribute
to that number in a great way, particularly in the federal system.
You like to talk about various" X/industrial complexes" but the
DEA/industrial complex is one of the worst.
They are fueled with massive budgets plus all the personal property
they can take in forfeitures and seizures.
Most of the privacy concerns we have with NSA are trivial compared to
what the DEA does to "targets", guilty or not.

We have more crimes, and therefore we have more crime, I think, would be
a more apt way of putting it.

I suppose the question would be, if you let all of the people
convicted of drug crimes out today, how big would the prison
population be?

Which other crimes would you pardon people for?

We can start a list.

There have to be people in prison who we would be better off putting
somewhere else.

It's not just a matter of pardoning people, although sentence reduction
for the non-violent would work, too; it's also a matter of not
continuously adding to the enormous list of crimes in this country, a
far greater list than other countries have, and many of them are pretty
esoteric.

Virtually all the banksters who caused the economic recession of the
Bush Administration were not prosecuted or imprisoned for anything.
When, let's say, 10,000 banksters are tried, convicted, and imprisoned
for ruining this country's economy, we'll have room for them in the
privately owned prison of their choice.