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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (18336)	3/9/2003 11:41:03 PM
From: Just_Observing	Respond to of 25898

Make your case... you challenged Karen Lawrence Here is a case for your idiocy: When Mao II wrote "The US already has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world." you wrote back We have more crime because we have more freedom to move about, those with criminal intentions have greater freedom to carry out their crimes... this is the price we pay for freedom since the alternative is no freedom at all... In America, the incarceration rate has gone up from 100 per 100,000 in 1970 to 699 per 100,000 now. Few would argue that our freedoms have changed that much from 1970. As for comparisons with other countries, America has six times the incarceration rate of Britain, Canada or France. Few will say that the US has more freedom than those three countries. Unless it is the freedom to be stupid which you revel in. And the freedom to be incarcerated which you evade much to our dismay on this thread. The rate of incarceration in the US is 699 per 100,000, up from roughly 100 per 100,000 in 1970. The next highest rate in the world is Russia at 644 and the American rate is six times higher than those of Britain, Canada, or France. "No other Western democratic country has ever imprisoned this proportion of its population," says Norval Morris, a professor emeritus at University of Chicago Law School. He considers the high number of people held behind bars in the United States America to be "appalling." zmag.org