At 12:59 PM -0800 on 3/25/99, stuart wrote:
>Bob Soron wrote:
>
>> At 10:37 AM -0600 on 3/25/99, Joe Gracey wrote:
>>
>> >> Mike Hays wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Oh dear! From "People Online" 3/24/99:
>> >>
>> >> * ARRESTED: Grammy Award-winning country singer Ray Price ("For the
>> >> Good
>> >> Times"), on a marijuana charge, near his Texas ranch. He was charged
>> >> with
>> >> possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and fined $700.
>> >
>> >yeah boy, they got 'em another criminal that time. I can't believe I am
>> >reading this in 1999.
>>
>> The local paper yesterday noted that pot busts have been more numerous
>> under the Clinton administration than under the Nixon administration.
>> The "If you don't vote you can't complain" folks have themselves to
>> blame.
>>
>> Bob
>
> Could this possibly be partly due to the budgetary incentives the
>prosecutorial machine now has in drug arrests.
No question. Also, the prison industry has become big business. I don't
have stats handy, there's a lot of big money behind all this prison
construction; the article I read yesterday focused on the phone
companies. It does put a nice spotlight on the answer to the question
"Does America have political prisoners?"
Bob
