The United States of punishment
CounterPunch
by William Blum
12/18/06
2.2 million imprisoned ... 'We're Number One! USA! USA! USA!' ... 7 million -- one in every 32 American adults -- either behind bars, on probation, or on parole ... When it comes to sentencing, let me tell you, people, and pardon my language, the United States is one ... beginning with mandatory minimum sentences ... there are tens of thousands of young men rotting their lives away in American prisons for simple possession of a drug, for their own use, for their own pleasure, to enjoy with a friend, no victims involved. Do you think a person should be in prison if he hasn't hurt anyone? Either physically, financially, or in some other real and serious manner?
http://www.counterpunch.org/blum12182006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Blum
by William Blum
12/18/06
2.2 million imprisoned ... 'We're Number One! USA! USA! USA!' ... 7 million -- one in every 32 American adults -- either behind bars, on probation, or on parole ... When it comes to sentencing, let me tell you, people, and pardon my language, the United States is one ... beginning with mandatory minimum sentences ... there are tens of thousands of young men rotting their lives away in American prisons for simple possession of a drug, for their own use, for their own pleasure, to enjoy with a friend, no victims involved. Do you think a person should be in prison if he hasn't hurt anyone? Either physically, financially, or in some other real and serious manner?
http://www.counterpunch.org/blum12182006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Blum
rudkla - 19. Dez, 15:51
