dp npt pass go....

[diseminator]

About one in every 31 adults in the United States was in prison, in jail or on supervised release at the end of last year, the Department of Justice reported yesterday.

An estimated 2.38 million people were incarcerated in state and federal facilities, an increase of 2.8 percent over 2005, while a record 5 million people were on parole or probation, an increase of 1.8 percent. Immigration detention facilities had the greatest growth rate last year. The number of people held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities grew 43 percent, to 14,482 from 10,104.

The data reflect deep racial disparities in the nation’s correctional institutions, with a record 905,600 African-American inmates in prisons and state and local jails. In several states, incarceration rates for blacks were more than 10 times the rate of whites. In Iowa, for example, blacks were imprisoned at 13.6 times the rate of whites, according to an analysis of the data by the Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy group.

[*pan*]

the reasons i see the numbers going up is the increase in new laws, the increase in population, not so much as crime going up, if you look at the statistics there are a lot of people incarcerated today for minor crimes such as driving infractions, checks, and other things that they would have never been imprisoned for before, hence the prison population increase. they never mention that when quoteing their statistics. there's a library of imformation left out of what they tell ya lol. they only tell ya what benifits them and their goals which is usually money.

[jem_is_bi]

The crime is having so many people in prison.
The crime is not producing young men and women that have the morals, education and drive to succeed and contribute positively to their community.
I have worked in a prison for a short time.
It is not a place you want to call home.
It is so sad that we do not do better for ourselves and especially for our children.

JEM