Good report. For all its problems, I think our legal system is quite efficient when the innocent/guilty ratio is the viewpoint. In other words, most of the people locked up have broken the law. The real issue is why were they doing it, and are these people good or bad citizens. By not being a socialist society such as France, we lock people up instead of rehabilitate them. Weather that's bad or not I'm not going to dispute, but saying that we have 25% of the worlds prison population is to imply that the rest of the world is right and we are wrong. I say it's the other way around, we are the most developed country with the most tax revenue to spend, so we can afford to have the most cops and to keep people in prison (it's expensive), and a decently good legal system. So in a way, the number is a compliment. The rest of the world could catch up as far as I'm concerned, because I've been in dangerous ghettos of some other countries. Your argument implies that other countries don't have crime problems, I say they do, but we deal with it better because we can. Bad people are spread across the world in an equal way. But we catch 'em better than you guys do, and we keep them locked up longer.
I'm signing off, talk to you guys tomorrow. -----Original Message----- From: chat-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:chat-ad...@freenetproject.org] On Behalf Of Glenn McGrath Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 8:50 PM To: chat at freenetproject.org Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] The Coming Storm > > Your government has 25% of the worlds prison population. > > Probably because our cops and prosecutors are better than yours. Separately,> we lock up far to many non violent drug offenders. Add that together and we> have too many prisoners. But 25% of the world's population has to be a wrong> number. China's prison population is probably larger than our entire> country. If not them, then China and India together are defiantly. It's not> that we have lost of criminals, because all countries have lots of 'em, it's> that ours are behind bars. > http://www.uncjin.org/country/country.html at the bottom there is a link to a UK government report in PDF format, 8 million prisioners in the world, 1.7 million in the US. So i stand corrected, 21.25% of the worlds population is in US prisions by the UK governments study. Land of the ? Glenn _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
