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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:08 PM Original message |
THE US INCARCERATES BY FAR THE LARGEST PROPORTION OF IT'S POPULATION OF ANY COUNTRY IN HISTORY |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yeah, but most of the inmates are minorities |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. That is correct |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
32. May I suggest a greater struggle? |
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texasleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
42. I'm sure they're all political prisoners. |
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HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. GOTTA BE PROUD.... |
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Kievan Rus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
3. You can thank the War on Drugs for this |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 10:01 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. We have to keep those dangerous marijuana felons locked up!! |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. petty drug crimes will get you locked up for good and long |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. A lotta money in locking people up. nt |
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onestepforward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #5 |
27. Yes. Many prisions are run by private companies for profit. n/t |
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AuntPatsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:27 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. and that right there is the main reason that even today new laws are constantly |
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Dinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 12:22 AM Response to Reply #5 |
59. Yup (nt) |
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justabob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. land of the free |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
7. Er, we're number one? |
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liberal renegade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I hear you, loud and clear |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Meet the new boss... |
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liberal renegade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 10:42 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. We all love him and his wonderful family |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 06:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
70. That's not how he rolls. n/t |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
8. knr nt |
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irislake (967 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. Even so the rest of us in the outside world |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
12. ..... the land of the free? |
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Snarkoleptic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
13. There's big money in the prison biz. |
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Jkid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
14. It's high time to depopulate the prisons. |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
15. The US also has the most actions criminalized of any country... |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
17. Higher rates than that "awful" USSR even. |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. well yeah the USSR was pretty awful |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:30 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. Yet it's not |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 10:49 AM Response to Reply #31 |
34. wait you've never seen a number higher than 100K? |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 10:56 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Read it again |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 08:07 PM Response to Reply #36 |
50. so stalin was |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 08:18 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. One of the most astonishing things I've found on DU.... |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 09:40 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. I've never seen that |
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anaxarchos (963 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 11:00 PM Response to Reply #53 |
56. Well, I've seen the opposite. Does that count? |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 11:18 PM Response to Reply #53 |
57. Here ya go. |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 12:29 AM Response to Reply #57 |
60. LOL |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 04:07 PM Response to Reply #57 |
65. Where? |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. You obviously didn't click on all the links. |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 06:37 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. In America at least you can bring something solid to the table. |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 07:03 PM Response to Reply #66 |
72. Clicked on all of them |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 07:44 PM Response to Reply #72 |
73. So you're just not going to admit you were wrong? |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 07:57 PM Response to Reply #72 |
75. Here... |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 07:54 PM Response to Reply #57 |
74. Did someone really say that Stalin stood on the right side of history? |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 08:50 PM Response to Reply #74 |
79. Shocking isn't it? |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #79 |
80. The dynamics are slightly different. But, yes, it is very similar to defending Hitler. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 06:40 PM Response to Reply #50 |
69. don't bother. your post was really good but nothing will sink in with this guy. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 06:39 PM Response to Reply #31 |
68. let's get this straight, you're actually making a "the US is worse than stalin run USSR" argument? |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 07:00 PM Response to Reply #68 |
71. Noone made that argument |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 07:05 PM Response to Reply #17 |
48. Well when a substantial portion of the prison population dies in prison each year... |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
18. It conceals the true unemployment rate |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 10:12 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Interesting. |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 12:29 PM Response to Reply #21 |
37. add in the prison population to the total unemployed |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
19. That's where industry gets its slave labor. Peonage, I think it's called. nt |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
22. Do you want to know what the funny side of all of this is? |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:20 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. I don't know. |
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AuntPatsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:29 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. IT not only seems that way it is the truth of it all.. |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 05:48 PM Response to Reply #22 |
45. Are you really claiming republicans are fiscal conservatives? |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 06:05 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. You are not good at reading. n/t |
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uncle ray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 08:07 PM Response to Reply #22 |
77. that's not fiscal conservatism, |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
25. For some reason, I read this as "US incinerates largest portion..." |
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justinaforjustice (519 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
28. Prisons Are An Industry. |
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DU GrovelBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
33. ## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ## |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
35. well, at least we're number one at something |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
38. "The land of the free..." |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 12:32 AM Response to Reply #38 |
61. I wish I could laugh. |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
39. Legitimate sources for any of this? |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 12:48 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. oh it's true |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 07:27 PM Response to Reply #44 |
49. I know it's true. |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 09:45 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. Diversion |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
40. Much underdiscussed subject amidst the celebrity news -- !!! |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
41. We already know this so WHY ARE YOU YELLING? |
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anaxarchos (963 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 06:29 PM Response to Reply #41 |
47. Who is "we"? |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
43. k i c k |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
52. Recommend |
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shondradawson (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
55. Why does no one ever address that our economic system is |
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Trillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 07:57 PM Response to Reply #55 |
76. ding ding ding. |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
58. Addiction to incarceration is a right wing big gubmint family value. |
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Xicano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 01:01 AM Response to Original message |
62. Check this out.. |
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subcomhd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
63. two words |
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maryf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
64. K&R nt |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
78. WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!! USA!! USA!! And I'm proud to be an 'MURKIN where at least I |
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maryf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 07:20 AM Response to Original message |
81. Criminal to be poor |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-24-09 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
82. Collateral damage from predatory capitalism. |
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