-- At 05:39 AM 12/7/2000 -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
The US Corrections System currently has 458,000 Drug War Prisoners.
This figure may be a substantial under estimate, for it is fairly common practice in some courts, when someone is charged with a serious victimless illegal act, to offer a plea bargain where he pleads guilty to a crime that in theory supposedly has a victim, despite the absence of any complainant, a crime somehow connected to theft, guns and violence, despite the absence of any specific identifiable person robbed or threatened by these guns or violence. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG IMbO+yh1UkDtUkPKlB6E7DsnRwamnzIDr1j5upMw 4wsWH9+U/GwzrU3OioU3UGXbpCqEEXt4oiSwC3KLT