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Update on driver who fell asleep at the wheel
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Update on driver who fell asleep at the wheel
Zoot Katz
wrote in part: http://www.drugpolicy.org/drugwar/mandatorymin/ I don't know their source for those figures. -- zk Why not go straight to the source: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/welcome.html You'll find the numbers there without the misleading summaries. I'm not accusing you of being misleading but those quotes *are* misleading because all the numbers referred to are for *federal* prisons. The overwhelming majority of prison inmates in the US are in *State* facilities where all the objections cited simply don't apply. Regards, Bob Hunt |
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Update on driver who fell asleep at the wheel
(Dennis P. Harris
wrote: oh, many of them were either growing or selling a rather harmless herb. Tobacco? Regards, Bob Hunt |
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Update on driver who fell asleep at the wheel
Over half the people locked up are Blacks and Illegal Mexicans doing drugs,
murdering, and other things like that. "Andy Simpson" m wrote in message ... "Kerry Nikolaisen" wrote in message ink.net... If you recall, a bus driver (off-duty) fell asleep at the wheel killing a cyclist near Alton, Illinois. Concerned parents in her district started a petition to have her transferred to a "non-driving" position. This petition drive stemmed from the response they got from the school district that they could do nothing to the driver until the state suspended her license and/or bus permit. Apparently they did just that. Makes me wonder if the state would have taken this action if the petition drive had not been initiated. Here's the link. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?n...G=461&dept_id= 25271&rfi=6 Kerry A $500 fine and she lost her license for a while. What kind of fruit-loop country do you people live in ? What the hell did the 2 million people you have locked up in jail do if you just get a $500 fine for running someone over and killing them ? Don't be road-kill, emigrate. |
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OT: Prison statistics
Hunrobe wrote:
there for narcotics offenses. That's State prisons. The federal prisons have a higher percentage of narcotics offenders but that's because relatively few violent offenses are federal crimes. In 2002 federal prisons were housing just 163,528 inmates. In 2002 the State prison(s) held 1,277,127 inmates. BTW, in most States possession of a joint is, at most, a misdemeanor. Misdemeanor = possible county jail time but *not* State prison. Do these statistics reflect the federal prisoners currently residing in state prisons? I've a friend who works up at SCO Waymart and they have quite a few. I'm not disputing the figures, I'm just asking about them. |
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OT: Prison statistics
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