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Originally posted by Stockholm:
[b]... all have or had extremely severe penalties for any criminals acts and have prisons that don't exactly have a lot of touchy-feely rehabilitation programs.[/b]
[url=http://www.nccd-crc.org/nccd/pubs/2006nov_factsheet_incarceration.pdf]A [b]National Council on Crime and Delinquency[/b] Quick Fact Sheet says [img]frown.gif" border="0[/img] pdf)[/url]
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In the past 30 years,the USA has come to rely on imprisonment as its response to all types of crime. Even minor violations of parole or probation often lead to a return to prison. This has created a prison system of unprecedented size in this country.
• [b]The US incarcerates the largest number of people in the world.[/b]
• The incarceration rate in the US is four times the world average.
• Some individual US states imprison up to [b]six times[/b] as many people as do nations of comparable population.
• The US imprisons the most women in the world.
• Crime rates do not account for incarceration rates.
They are warehousing poor people in for-profit superprisons in the U.S.A, Canada's largest trading partner in crime. Needless to say, warehousing the poor does nothing to prevent several hundred billion dollars being stolen from the economy every year due to white collar crime.
[ 10 June 2007: Message edited by: Fidel ]