Drugs and MTB's

Peter Cole wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Jun 20, 2:23 pm, (Tom Keats) wrote:

American law enforcement wrt cannabis is so draconianly
over-done. But I guess the American Jihad on Drugs
keeps the prison industry going.

I don't think it's an attempt to help any industry. It's damned
expensive to house all those inmates. If it were a profit item,
prosecutors wouldn't be accepting shaky plea bargains, and our county
wouldn't be turning prisoners loose to save expense.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009...eeds-of-crime/


"It’s a staggering case; more staggering still that it has scarcely been
mentioned on this side of the ocean. Last week two judges in
Pennsylvania were convicted of jailing some 2000 children in exchange
for bribes from private prison companies.

Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan sent children to jail for offences
so trivial that some of them weren’t even crimes. A 15 year-old called
Hillary Transue got three months for creating a spoof web page
ridiculing her school’s assistant principal. Mr Ciavarella sent Shane
Bly, then 13, to boot camp for trespassing in a vacant building. He gave
a 14 year-old, Jamie Quinn, 11 months in prison for slapping a friend
during an argument, after the friend slapped her. The judges were paid
$2.6 million by companies belonging to the Mid Atlantic Youth Services
Corp for helping to fill its jails(1,2,3). This is what happens when
public services are run for profit."

butbutbut, profit over people is the American Way!

--
Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
I am a vehicular cyclist.

Tom Sherman °_° wrote:
Peter Cole wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Jun 20, 2:23 pm, (Tom Keats) wrote:

American law enforcement wrt cannabis is so draconianly
over-done. But I guess the American Jihad on Drugs
keeps the prison industry going.

I don't think it's an attempt to help any industry. It's damned
expensive to house all those inmates. If it were a profit item,
prosecutors wouldn't be accepting shaky plea bargains, and our county
wouldn't be turning prisoners loose to save expense.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009...eeds-of-crime/


"It’s a staggering case; more staggering still that it has scarcely
been mentioned on this side of the ocean. Last week two judges in
Pennsylvania were convicted of jailing some 2000 children in exchange
for bribes from private prison companies.

Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan sent children to jail for offences
so trivial that some of them weren’t even crimes. A 15 year-old called
Hillary Transue got three months for creating a spoof web page
ridiculing her school’s assistant principal. Mr Ciavarella sent Shane
Bly, then 13, to boot camp for trespassing in a vacant building. He
gave a 14 year-old, Jamie Quinn, 11 months in prison for slapping a
friend during an argument, after the friend slapped her. The judges
were paid $2.6 million by companies belonging to the Mid Atlantic
Youth Services Corp for helping to fill its jails(1,2,3). This is what
happens when public services are run for profit."

butbutbut, profit over people is the American Way!


Yes, of course, and government "meddling" is the "road to serfdom",
don't forget that. God forbid we should live in a nightmare society like
Sweden!