Comments on: 1 in 32 U.S. Adults Serving Sentences

Justice Department Report Finds A Record 7 Million In Prison, Probation Or Parole

[sharncedar]

Are we willing to admit yet that we are a police state? 8% of balck males are in prison - I guess the Nazi corporations in charge of our nation have found a "final solution" to civil injustice.

Who can deny that this is a police state but a fool.

They divide and conquer; like their forbears the Nazis, they divide the population against themselves by false concepts like race and class. When the corporate government tells a white schoolkid in Alabama she can't pray in school, and when the corporate government shoots 50 rounds into an unarmed black man in NY, its the same action by the same government.

When we realize that then there is a little bit of hope for us.

[random_radar]

Most people get sent to prison for so-called drug crimes. This is a case of the cure being worse than the disease. I won't bother asking if people really think prison is a good approach to drug addiction because obviously the anwer is yes. If everyone could spend a year in prison, I hope they would change their minds, but probably they would still say yes. Why does our society inflict such hateful suffering on drug users? We are barbarians.

[agnim]

America -- the most crime-ridden society on the planet.

One of our produce is criminality.

The so-called 'land of the free' is THE MOST UN-FREE nation on the planet, due to the fact that such a huge percentage of our population is in the prison system, which doubles as the US' 21st Century slavery system for Black people.

[olebd]

Just be sure to filter them back to their own country in a reasonable time period.

[olebd]

Replace most of these 7 million petty prisoners with the estimated 10 million illegal immigrants as they pose a greater overall financial threat to the general American public in the long run.

[perception5]

Well we can thank primarily two groups for this.
The first group is the our liberal Democrats and the second group is our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack.
In Baltimore City today less than 50% of children ever graduate from High School and there is a 72% drop out rate by black male children.
Baltimore has been controlled 100% by Democrats for years, decades, and generations as millions of poor black children has been ignored by this monopoly, except to have them come out every two years and vote of the candidate with the "D" behind their name.
What is/has been happening in Baltimore is the same across America in every been city.
A city government dominated by Democrats and their enablers our corrupt MSM press. In Baltimore it's the Baltimore Sun newspaper that protects their pals, the Dems.
What we have here is a type of "big city plantation" where black Americans are promised the world and delivery never happens.
This situation is the "greatest crime NEVER reported by our liberal MSM wolfpack.
Because black children are not being educated in these "big city plantations" the cycle of crime, drugs, and unbelievable dropout rates continue.
Black Americans make up the "base" of the Democratic party. It's time that the Dems and their pals in the liberal MSM reach out and stop this endless cylce.......... you guys have the reins and power ............. now help your base!

[rochest]

Antoniof123
Yes yes yes you are so right let's hope some politicians have the guts to begin working on legislation for this rational approach ...pot may be a gateway drug for some like beer is to hard liquor but for most it ends there.... so why should I be a criminal in the eyes of the community or because of the drug teachings in school a criminal in the eyes of my children? And what about medical marijuana?

[whatithink-2009]

The prison system is a way to keep down the unemployment rate...both with the prisoners and the prison guards.

[antoniof123]

Left out one thing most of the drug charges are the use of pot about 70% and under 20 grams so what are we saying. A person who smokes grass and spends what $100 dollars goes to jail or on probation and then we the tax payers get to pay around $70,000 a year to make sure he doesn't do it again. I think I would rather get the tax from the sell of pot for paying down the national debt. Please give me a break on the war on drugs it is just another way for our leaders to get there pockets greased by someone else. Mass fear haven't we had enough of that and haven't we learned that it just doesn't work. Please don't say that it leads to harder drugs. Maybe we should just make it all legal and stop trying to keep it out of peoples hands. Then the government could tax it and we would not be paying as much in other taxes. The crimes happen and people get killed because they have to sneak around doing something wrong. Let's stop worrying about things we can't stop then maybe we can fix things that need to be fix.

[cathaleen]

Allgood:

You are so right. Parents have no rights anymore.
Any teenager can tell you their rights - they don't have to go to school, parents can't put them in a special program or rehab if they don't want to go, if you slap them they tell the school officials and the parents go to jail.
So when these kids are 18, they have no fear and no education, thanks to the crazy liberals.