Punitive People
Here's the beating heart of Conservatism:
"I say let the prisoners pick the fruits," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, one of more than a dozen Republicans who took turns condemning a Senate bill that offers an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants an opportunity for citizenship.According to the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics:
On December 31, 2004 --These jokers want to make that 2.1 million something more like 14 million. Can you imagine? The United States already has world's largest prison population, and many in the GOP want to increase it sevenfold. Just "wow". Posted by shamanic at March 31, 2006 11:38 AM | TrackBack-- 2,135,901 prisoners were held in Federal or State prisons or in local jails -- an increase of 2.6% from yearend 2003, less than the average annual growth of 3.4% since yearend 1995.
-- there were an estimated 486 prison inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents -- up from 411 at yearend 1995.
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