drugs in Vineland---and drug laws

[rich]

and were profitable (at least for a while) for folks like the CCA Corporation

skimping on meals, healthcare, u name it

rich

On 3/30/09, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Obviously, prisons use a lot of energy.  Who knew?
>
> On 3/30/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Robin quoted:
>>
>> > Let's start with a premise that I don't think a lot of Americans are
>> > aware of. We have 5% of the world's population; we have 25%
>> > of the world's known prison population. We have an
>> > incarceration rate in the United States, the world's greatest
>> > democracy, that is five times as high as the average
>> > incarceration rate of the rest of the world.
>>
>> Currently, the US also consumes 25% of the world's energy. What's
>> the hidden conversion factor here?
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