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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (34370)	11/6/2000 9:14:14 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

That's what happens when you put everyone that is slow, poor and uses drugs, in prison. Pretty soon it will be a good place for people who don't agree with the current admisnistration or who aren't PC, too ...

To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (34370)	11/7/2000 8:02:08 AM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 436258

From the bbc article-- About 1.3 million of the current jail population have been imprisoned for non-violent crimes, usually drug offences. The annual bill for their incarceration is almost $26bn - about 50% more than the government's entire spending on welfare and social security programmes. heinz-- I'm a lock 'em up and throw away the key kind when it comes to violent crime. I could be a hanging-judge. Having said that, the non-violent crime population is out of control and is costing us a fortune. I suspect that if many of the "compassionately conservative" on the board get their way both populations will increase exponentially. Poor, hungry kids often turn into angry, violent adults. When you cut social programs on one end you can count on paying for it on the other end somehow. They see the "savings" on the front end but fail to see the "cost" on the back end. In Wisconsin they're very good at building prisons. They're also very good at raising property taxes so that the state is ranked in the top 10 worst places to live for combined tax burden and has remained there for several years. Property taxes are so high they're putting their family dairy farms out of business at an alarming rate. Though corporate state tax rates are very low I hear. This is what 12 years of Republican governorship will do for you. They have a new expensive Super Max prison facility (for only the most violent offenders) they can't fill. But Tommy Thompson can't seem to figure out he's got millions of dollars in Food Stamp money to make the transition from welfare to work a success. Maybe he's hoping to fill that prison somehow. It's become quite an embarrassment sitting there largely empty. (To fill the beds he's had to place less violent criminals there at an exorbitant cost per inmate.)