Re: Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?
On Sep 9, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
The US has a lot of people in prison because the US has a lot of criminals, end of story.
I’m not sure of that. I thought that U.S. crime rates, aside from gun-
induced murders, are comparable to Western Europe’s. We only stand
out on murder. Or so I remember. We just criminalize more stuff.
Doug