HANDCUFF USA THWARTED BY ECONOMY
Good news, lads! Good news. Less people are going to jail because the economic collapse axed tax revenues and we can't afford to lock 'em all up forever now.
"The United States soon may see its prison population drop for the first time in almost four decades, a milestone in a nation that locks up more people than any other," reported Associated Press.
A milestone for Xmas!
"About 739,000 prisoners were admitted to state and federal facilities last year, about 3,500 more than were released, according to news figures from the Bureau of Justice. The 0.8 percent growth in the prison population is the smallest annual increase this decade and significantly less than the 6.5 percent annual growth of the 1990s ... [The] economic crisis has forced states to reconsider who they put behind bars and how long they keep them there ..."
California is currently under a a federal order to release 40,000 inmates because its prisons are so overcrowded they have been deemed unconstitutionally cruel and unusual, the article also said. But not quite that way.
Handcuff USA -- from the archives.
Good news, lads! Good news. Less people are going to jail because the economic collapse axed tax revenues and we can't afford to lock 'em all up forever now.
"The United States soon may see its prison population drop for the first time in almost four decades, a milestone in a nation that locks up more people than any other," reported Associated Press.
A milestone for Xmas!
"About 739,000 prisoners were admitted to state and federal facilities last year, about 3,500 more than were released, according to news figures from the Bureau of Justice. The 0.8 percent growth in the prison population is the smallest annual increase this decade and significantly less than the 6.5 percent annual growth of the 1990s ... [The] economic crisis has forced states to reconsider who they put behind bars and how long they keep them there ..."
California is currently under a a federal order to release 40,000 inmates because its prisons are so overcrowded they have been deemed unconstitutionally cruel and unusual, the article also said. But not quite that way.
Handcuff USA -- from the archives.
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