tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14237465.post1983883865513893305..comments2024-03-22T19:12:22.089+11:00Comments on One Salient Oversight: 1 in 100 Americans are in prisonNeil Cameron (One Salient Oversight)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03143948543305522865noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14237465.post-60207050469697070792008-02-29T17:19:00.000+11:002008-02-29T17:19:00.000+11:0042: I agree with you except I don't agree three st...42: I agree with you except I don't agree three strikes is necessarily nonsense. If someone is convicted of three violent felonies, for example, I don't have any objection to applying a three strikes rule.BLBeamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953399820620982720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14237465.post-47930805545411708522008-02-29T15:49:00.000+11:002008-02-29T15:49:00.000+11:00There is even a TV show "America's Hardest Prisons...There is even a TV show "America's Hardest Prisons". Over the years my study of USA prisons tells me I would not want to be in one so why are they so popular. I have been very close to Alcatraz - ok just looking at it from Fisherman's Wharf - looked so awful why would I take the boat trip. <BR/><BR/>Anyone any breakdown stats on crime?Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01898855599160925012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14237465.post-6287711442930326922008-02-29T15:36:00.000+11:002008-02-29T15:36:00.000+11:00absolutely it's due to stupid draconian drug laws,...absolutely it's due to stupid draconian drug laws, "three strikes" nonsense, and Victorian pinch-butt notions of sex and its commerce.<BR/><BR/>I'm not soft on actual, you know, crime. but victimless "crimes" e.g. possession, prostitution, etc. are hardly worth putting people in prison.42https://www.blogger.com/profile/13859128086869479774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14237465.post-72003725269909455522008-02-29T15:02:00.000+11:002008-02-29T15:02:00.000+11:00I'm pretty sure it's because of our stupid drug la...I'm pretty sure it's because of our stupid drug laws. I'd bet money that many of those incarcerated were convicted of marijuana possession.BLBeamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953399820620982720noreply@blogger.com