There are a lot more people making $$$ off of punishment than off of rehabilitation or compassion or even plain ol' justice.
I know I said it already, but dammit, we in the "land of the free" have the world's highest incarceration rate. That just never ceases to astound me. And the numbers are even worse for black folks. They're astronomical.
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Date: 2012-05-04 05:53 pm (UTC)I know I said it already, but dammit, we in the "land of the free" have the world's highest incarceration rate. That just never ceases to astound me. And the numbers are even worse for black folks. They're astronomical.
We live in a police state.