re: #443 Gus 802

The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world at 754 persons in prison or jail per 100,000 (as of 2008).[3] A report released Feb. 28, 2008 indicates that more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States are in prison. The United States has less than 5% of the world’s population[ and 23.4% of the world’s prison population.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

Subtract all the non-violent drug offenders whose only reason for being there is having had the bad luck to get caught with today’s equivalent of bootleg whiskey, and that number would instantly drop by at least half.

But we’re all about punishment in this land.