God help this great land.
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| WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly 7 million adults were in U.S. prisons or on probation or parole at the end of last year, 30 percent more than in 1995, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
That was about one in every 31 adults under correctional supervision at the end of 2004, compared with about 1 in 36 adults in 1995 and about 1 adult in every 88 in 1980, said Allan J. Beck, who oversaw the preparation of the department's annual report on probation and parole populations. |
Read that again. One out of every 31 adults in the US is in prison, on probation, or on parole. Either this is a very, very sick society or there are a whole lot of people being locked up for things that shouldn't be crimes. Wanna guess which way I go on this?
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