Women only make up 7% of the prison system? Surely this means that we are vastly discriminating against men. Just a women should be more evenly represented in the Congress, they should have equal representation in prisons.
That said, lets dump all the drug users out of prison. If for no other reason than to save money. And while we are at it, lets change the laws that put them there in the first place.
Posted by wolf on Jun 1, 2006 at 3:13 PM
A grudging concession from an idiot who probably supported mandatory sentencing when the Republicans and conservative Democrats advocated them to persuade a terrified pre-911electorate to vote for them. Now the “costs” appear to be more excessive then the welfare which once barely sustained them.
Incarceration is just another conservative euphemism for welfare, which itself was just another American euphemism for criminal social neglect.
Posted by Major Major on Jun 1, 2006 at 4:35 PM
Our rate of female incarceration is actually quite significant, although I can see how a “mere” seven percent might seem like nothing, at first. Women are, in fact, the fastest growing segment of the prison system(s), not only in the federal system, but in all 50 states.
A new report commissioned by the Institute on Women & Criminal Justice finds that female imprisonment in the U.S. has grown no less than 757 percent since 1977. For more on this, please visit the Women’s Prison Association site, for their report, “Hard Hit.”
Posted by Silja J.A. Talvi on Jun 1, 2006 at 5:19 PM
Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida proposed the toughest gun-crime law in the nation in 1998: 10-20-LIFE. Under 10-20-LIFE, a felon who used a gun to commit a crime like armed robbery would face at least 10 years in state prison.
The 1999 Florida Legislature passed sweeping legislation that provides for enhanced minimum mandatory prison terms for offenders who commit crimes with guns.
The results under 10-20-LIFE are impressive. In only six years, from 1998-2004, 10-20-LIFE has helped drive down violent gun crime rates 30 percent statewide.
During the 10-20-LIFE era, armed criminals robbed a total of 10,567 fewer people and killed a total 380 fewer than they would have if these crime numbers had remained at 1998 levels. These crime decreases occurred even as Florida’s population increased over 2.5 million (16.8 percent) between 1998 and 2004. Punishing criminals who use guns is making our state safer.
YOU LIBERALS CAN’T SPIN THOSE FACTS
Posted by tina1 on Jun 1, 2006 at 10:54 PM
sorry, but it’s not just liberals who are against these overly repressive crime prevention policies which are in the end not bettering our society but making us more a nation of scared sheep.
statistics without sources are just a worthless opinion
Posted by davinci on Jun 2, 2006 at 4:09 AM
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Women only make up 7% of the prison system? Surely this means that we are vastly discriminating against men. Just a women should be more evenly represented in the Congress, they should have equal representation in prisons.
That said, lets dump all the drug users out of prison. If for no other reason than to save money. And while we are at it, lets change the laws that put them there in the first place.
Posted by wolf on Jun 1, 2006 at 3:13 PM
A grudging concession from an idiot who probably supported mandatory sentencing when the Republicans and conservative Democrats advocated them to persuade a terrified pre-911electorate to vote for them. Now the “costs” appear to be more excessive then the welfare which once barely sustained them.
Incarceration is just another conservative euphemism for welfare, which itself was just another American euphemism for criminal social neglect.
Posted by Major Major on Jun 1, 2006 at 4:35 PM
Our rate of female incarceration is actually quite significant, although I can see how a “mere” seven percent might seem like nothing, at first. Women are, in fact, the fastest growing segment of the prison system(s), not only in the federal system, but in all 50 states.
A new report commissioned by the Institute on Women & Criminal Justice finds that female imprisonment in the U.S. has grown no less than 757 percent since 1977. For more on this, please visit the Women’s Prison Association site, for their report, “Hard Hit.”
Posted by Silja J.A. Talvi on Jun 1, 2006 at 5:19 PM
Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida proposed the toughest gun-crime law in the nation in 1998: 10-20-LIFE. Under 10-20-LIFE, a felon who used a gun to commit a crime like armed robbery would face at least 10 years in state prison.
The 1999 Florida Legislature passed sweeping legislation that provides for enhanced minimum mandatory prison terms for offenders who commit crimes with guns.
The results under 10-20-LIFE are impressive. In only six years, from 1998-2004, 10-20-LIFE has helped drive down violent gun crime rates 30 percent statewide.
During the 10-20-LIFE era, armed criminals robbed a total of 10,567 fewer people and killed a total 380 fewer than they would have if these crime numbers had remained at 1998 levels. These crime decreases occurred even as Florida’s population increased over 2.5 million (16.8 percent) between 1998 and 2004. Punishing criminals who use guns is making our state safer.
YOU LIBERALS CAN’T SPIN THOSE FACTS
Posted by tina1 on Jun 1, 2006 at 10:54 PM
sorry, but it’s not just liberals who are against these overly repressive crime prevention policies which are in the end not bettering our society but making us more a nation of scared sheep.
statistics without sources are just a worthless opinion
Posted by davinci on Jun 2, 2006 at 4:09 AM