Most of a nation on probation?

Jim Choate ravage at ssz.com
Wed Jul 4 16:33:42 PDT 2001



On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote:

> I'm sure that "cost-effectiveness" has a role to play here.  I just don't
> agree that the cost savings of parole are all that big a factor.  The US has
> more prisoners per capital than just about anyone (I think the US is
> surpassed by Russia and maybe South Africa).  So we've already made the
> decision that we can afford to lock up a lot of people.

Got any cites? Thought not (as usual you make the shit up as you go
along).

That's ok, I provided some....

We're 5% of the world population and we've got 25% of the prisoners.


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