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We need to move those blue dots closer to D.C.
A population chart would help make things clearer here.
Shouldn’t those circles be black?
mu: I agree!! You have to include population figures, or it’s kinda meaningless. In a nutshell: we currently incarcerate (both Federal and State/local) 737 people per 100,000/population. That is higher than any other country in the world, by a wide margin. We’ve more than tripled our per-capita incarceration rate in the last 30 years.
More reading, or do a quick Google search for lots of other stats:
http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_newfigures.pdf
Whoa. Scary.
2010, will we have one large dot just covering the entire country? Watch the video “Don’t Talk to the Police” and learn how there are so many obscure laws out there, you just about can’t avoid breaking some of them.
Hawaii has a federal prison, but not Alaska?
Those dots could get bigger fast:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/interview-with-the-president-jail-time-for-those-without-health-care-insurance.html
Julie, Alaska is my second home. The natives run that Ranch. They are all good people, if they screw up they are sent to Seattle.
What scares me is how many leave the prisons then get elected.
This looks so f’d up I thought it was connect the dots for porn.
Actually if you connect the dots for 2009 you get Obama receiving a Nobel Prize.
Hate to break it to you Scott but law-and-order Republicans have been running things for most of the time in question.
I said 2009. I found it in my kids’ Highlights this week.
It would be interesting to know–and I’m sure that googling around would find the answer to this, but I have an alarm set for 4:30 AM to go to work and I’m feeling kind of lazy–what percentage of those people are imprisoned for the heinous crime of ingesting a weed. Just imagine how much money would be involved by eliminating the “war” on drugs, legalizing pot,and regulating the product. Money both saved, by not spending on that stupid “war”, and earned, by taxing the product.
Another thought: there are no prisons in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and North Dakota. By coincidence, not very many people live in those states. Seems to me we release all the potheads and send the hardened criminals to where no one lives, problem solved!
As I said earlier….Alaska, pot is legal.
Thanks for the reminder KLAW, there are no prisons and very few people there, please add Alaska to my previous list of where to send the bad guys.
Seems to me that this just shows how badly our society doesn’t want to work for what they want/need – so they go out and steal it and get caught. They don’t respect other peoples property then sit around smoking pot & drinkin 40’s laughing and planning how to get what others have cause it is easier. Boy, these people haven’t worked hard enough, the fence won’t take this stuff, the haul isn’t as big as they expect. As am empolyer .. legalizing Pot leaves me a talent pool of hop heads to invest my money in to training how to assist me in making my business successful. Oh and then there is workmans comp from impairment. More money I pay out. The broken machinery due to “Duuuudddeeee, LOL, look what I just droped in the grinder/flattener/hot fat frier… Yeah, let’s just let em all smoke mind altering substances and trust they will not cost us money we need to provide some sort of small business health care. Yeah! Let’s take that to the Obamanator .. There’s more people he could make happy.
P in B we don’t want your prisoners you raised them you fix them. i don’t have to lock my doors in a city of 25k that says something about us right wing nuts up here. most of us have guns and the crooks would rather cross over into Washington with is stricter gun laws to do there crimes it is safer for them.
Sounder,
Are you saying all pot smokers are criminals who sit around thinking about how to steal stuff? I’ve got to call you on that one, unless you have the statistics to back it up. In addition, I don’t think legalizing pot will at all change your “talent pool”. Do you allow your emloyees to come to work drunk? Probably not. I would imagine your employee handbook specifically states anyone coming to work in that condition is subject to discipline, up to and including termination. Add another sentence that says the same thing will happen if your employee comes to work stoned. Problem solved. Perhaps some of the money saved by ending the “war on drugs” could be allocated to small business owners like you, in order to….lower the cost of health insurance for your employees.
A L N,
Sorry, I did not raise them, I’m sure not going to fix them. Heck, you could probably “fix them” easier than I could. Just imagine the target practice you could enjoy in self defense, since, according to Sounder, “they go out and steal it and get caught. They don’t respect other peoples property then sit around smoking pot & drinkin 40’s laughing and planning how to get what others have cause it is easier.” They won’t be able to break in to your house more than once, would they?
put the bastards on the chain gang busting rocks 24/7
seriously the whole thing is scary! but on another note,
how does one get to get sent to prison in Hawaii? That may be the only way I can ever afford to get there!
Keep in mind we’re talking FEDERAL prisons. There are state prisons everywhere.
I would like to see this along side a graphic for crime rates to see if our “lock em up” plan is working.
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/
PopCollector
“Shouldn’t those circles be black?”
Yes, they should be black – only black are criminals!
Dang it, Paul. Why do you sometimes come up with these things that I agree with.
I agree, I don’t think we should be incarcerating the non-violent offenders. But by the same token, if we’re going to release the pot smokers, let’s make darn sure the folks that commit crimes or harm against other folks are kept there for a long, long time.
Thanks KLAW. Interesting stuff.
Rev,
Why do you say “dang it”? I also agree, keep the real criminals locked up–in the vast, empty northern tiers of our country–for a long, long time.
Well, Paul, I say dang it, because it’s hard to get upset at your more liberal comments if I agree with you on others. I’m doing my utmost best to remain close-minded and backwards you see.