FUNKMAN
05-08-2004, 04:53 PM
With the recent happenings regarding the abuse of prisoners in Iraq, I keep hearing president Bush and some others saying over and over "This Is Not America"...
I would just have to say 'This is definitely part of America". I feel this is an attitude by some of our leaders that choose not to 'acknowledge', 'admit', or 'have a clue' about everything that goes on within America.
We have:
> Murders
> Rape
> Domestic Violence
> Child Sex Offenders
> Child Abductions
> Violent Crime
> Drug Addiction
> Alcohol Addiction
> Corporate Corruption
> Justice System Corruption
> the list goes on
I'm not saying i don't love this country but who are we to push Democracy on another country? We should clean our own house first.
It's just like any other problem that needs to be treated, you first have to admit that there is a problem!
TextLaw
U.S. Prison Population At New High
April 20, 2000 1:27 a.m. EDT
c 2000 Associated Press
All rights reserved
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of imprisoned American adults hit a record high of 1.86 million last year, the Justice Department says.
The prison population grew at a slower rate last year, the department said. However, with the latest increase of nearly 60,000 prisoners, the United States may have matched or even surpassed Russia as the country with the highest rate of incarceration.
As of June 1999, prisons and jails held 1,860,520 people, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report. That's an increase of more than a million people since 1985, when the figure was less 800,000.
Last year's total included more than 1.1 million state prisoners, about 606,000 men and women in local jails, and about 118,000 federal inmates. The rate of state and federal prison growth was 4.4 percent, the lowest since the 2.3 percent growth in 1979.
While the growth rate for state and local prisons declined last year, federal prisons continued to hold more people, adding more than 11,000 inmates.
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I would just have to say 'This is definitely part of America". I feel this is an attitude by some of our leaders that choose not to 'acknowledge', 'admit', or 'have a clue' about everything that goes on within America.
We have:
> Murders
> Rape
> Domestic Violence
> Child Sex Offenders
> Child Abductions
> Violent Crime
> Drug Addiction
> Alcohol Addiction
> Corporate Corruption
> Justice System Corruption
> the list goes on
I'm not saying i don't love this country but who are we to push Democracy on another country? We should clean our own house first.
It's just like any other problem that needs to be treated, you first have to admit that there is a problem!
TextLaw
U.S. Prison Population At New High
April 20, 2000 1:27 a.m. EDT
c 2000 Associated Press
All rights reserved
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of imprisoned American adults hit a record high of 1.86 million last year, the Justice Department says.
The prison population grew at a slower rate last year, the department said. However, with the latest increase of nearly 60,000 prisoners, the United States may have matched or even surpassed Russia as the country with the highest rate of incarceration.
As of June 1999, prisons and jails held 1,860,520 people, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report. That's an increase of more than a million people since 1985, when the figure was less 800,000.
Last year's total included more than 1.1 million state prisoners, about 606,000 men and women in local jails, and about 118,000 federal inmates. The rate of state and federal prison growth was 4.4 percent, the lowest since the 2.3 percent growth in 1979.
While the growth rate for state and local prisons declined last year, federal prisons continued to hold more people, adding more than 11,000 inmates.
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INSIDE LOOKING OUT