 - Last login: 7 days agoBRISEBANEROO48
- Karl is a single guy from California, USA.
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- Member since Nov 07, 2007
Well, Hi. Born in Virginia, from there moved to Australia, then back to the U.S. to live on the West coast, where I've been every since. Love the ocean, scuba diving, fishing, you know, doing thing where we get wet! Hmmmmm? I've kinda short on words right now. Absoutely love music, prefer easy listening, nothing loud, OK? Folk music, yeah, that too.
Dinner jazz. So now you see? Slow and easy! Yeah, that'll do the ticket! Ciao (Chow) for now. ----------Roo
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Gosh, just heard some sobbering stats on an NPR (National Public Radio) show.
It seems NPR was interviewing the New York Times Legal
correspondent and they were discussing the high
incarceration rate in the United States. Apparently
we are Number one in a few catagories.
We have far and away the most people in prisons/jail
than any other country. We have well over 2 million
persons in lock-up. China, with 1.7 million people
and #2 on the lock-up list, has 4 times our population.
We are the only country that sentences juvilles to life
in prison. We have over 500,000 people in prison for
breaking our drug laws. That, according to the NY Times
reporter is where we are also number one in the severity
of
punishment. Most other countries have more lenient punishments.
I thought otherwise, but guess I was misinformed.
Other countries have more robberies and thefts than we do.
We are number one in the murder rate. (Sounds like
a lotta rage out there)
We are one of only a very few countries that elect judges.
Which means probably, that the judges who run for
election, are tough on persons who commit crimes.
They mustn't look weak on crime to the public. Now that
makes a person sit up and notice, Hey?
Are we on the right track? I don't know. But I do know this.
It is my feeling that a lot of people who do dumb things
get caught up in the American Crimminal/Justice system
and that system does things to them that brutalizes them.
I have met a few people who have been in prison, many of
them are obviously mentally damaged.
I'm a lay person, but even I can see this.
One person who has mental health problems once
told me that the prison he was in was
called the "House of Pain."
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