America sends people to prison for just about everything

mmm New Yorker <3 so good.

Reminds me of Mr Fry on QI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPZed8af9RI

The Land of the free turned into the Country of control. It will only get worse as the years go on.

The Land of the free turned into the Country of control. It will only get worse as the years go on.

SouL-Tak3R

Just don't get caught.

The philosophy has always been more about punishment rather than rehabilitation or prevention.

The party advocating liberty and small government is the same one that traditionally advocates tough on crime stances such as prison time for drug use.mattbbpl

The Patriots are trying to control all of us.

The philosophy has always been more about punishment rather than rehabilitation or prevention.

one_plum

"America sends people to prison for just about everything"

I am sorry, but this does not compute. Right or wrong, the major categories of offences seems to be pretty narrow (drugs and violence), with most growth in the prison population coming from the war on drugs in recent years. The reason why the truancy ruling made headlines at all was because it was so unusual.

"We have in America more people in prison than the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height."

More people, maybe, but less per capita (about 800 per 100,000 in Stalin's Soviet Union at its peak). Also, it's a bit misleading to say "correctional supervision" to imply "prison", because more than 2/3 of those are not actually in prison itself, but rather on parole or probation. Many of them probably were previously in prison for extended periods and have a good chance of ending back up there. They are not completely free. But it is still not prison itself.