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Friday, March 23, 2012

More Americans now in jail than in Stalin's Gulag Archipelago



This is truly disgraceful.


The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens.

How does that compare to other countries?

It's 7X-10X as high:

Japan has 63 per 100,000,
Germany has 90 per 100,000
France has 96 per 100,000
South Korea has 97 per 100,000
­Britain has 153 per 100,000

Read more.

Incarceration nation.

Will get worse with the return of "debtors prisons" as we are now seeing. People are being arrested for being in debt.

7 comments:

  1. Mike Norman for cannonization and for President 2012, 2016, 2020.

    I will not be part of the Clampdown

    All the Wallstreeters get off Scott Free

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  2. by the Clash
    ( Strummer and Jones )

    1-2-3-4!
    Hey, hey!
    Ooh!
    the kingdom is ransacked
    the jewels all taken back
    and the chopper descends
    they're hidden in the back
    with a message on a half-baked tape
    with the spool going round
    saying im back here in this place
    and i could cry
    and there's smoke you could click on

    What are we gonna do now?
    Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew?
    ’Cos working for the clampdown
    They put up a poster saying we earn more than you!
    When we're working for the clampdown
    We will teach our twisted speech
    To the young believers
    We will train our blue-eyed men
    To be young believers

    The judge said five to ten but I say double that again
    I'm not working for the clampdown
    No man born with a living soul
    Can be working for the clampdown
    Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall
    How can you refuse it?
    Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
    D'you know that you can use it?

    The voices in your head are calling
    Stop wasting your time, there's nothing coming
    Only a fool would think someone could save you
    The men at the factory are old and cunning
    You don't owe nothing, so boy get runnin'
    It's the best years of your life they want to steal

    But, you grow up and you calm down and
    You're working for the clampdown
    You start wearing the blue and brown and
    You're working for the clampdown
    So you got someone to boss around
    It makes you feel big now
    You drift until you brutalize
    You made your first kill now

    In these days of evil presidentes
    Working for the clampdown
    But lately one or two has fully paid their due
    For working for the clampdown
    Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
    Working for the clampdown
    Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
    Working for the clampdown

    Yeah I’m working hard in Harrisburg
    Working hard in Petersburg
    Working for the clampdown
    Working for the clampdown
    Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong
    Begging to be melted down
    Gitalong, gitalong
    Work
    Work
    And I give away no secrets – ha!
    Work
    More work
    Work
    Work

    who's barmy now ?

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  3. Looks like jail is being used as a poor version of the Job Guarantee

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  4. the poverty rate in the US is 15.1% representing 46.2m people and rising. these people are effectively in prison - a socio-economic version - in which some of their living standards are below those in prison.

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  5. Jails are big business. "Make a law, make a business."

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  6. Peter Schiff just made the same comment on his website. Have you heard of him. You sound like you are a Peter Sciff wannabe.

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  7. Comments from blog Mike Norman Economics

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