Debt reshapes America’s criminal justice system
Russia Today
09 Maggio 2009
Free the prisoners. Eliminate the death penalty. Legalize marijuana. America’s recession is forcing states to reshape their criminal justice systems.
Over 1,000 convicts walked out of Kentucky’s prisons without completing their sentences. In Virginia, prisoners were used to strip the Southampton Correctional Center, and then they were shipped out.
America’s war on drugs and tough-on-crime strategies are shameful failures that have accomplished three things. They have put outrageous numbers of people in jail, won innumerable votes for politicians and created ridiculous bills that states can no longer afford.
25% of the world’s prisoners are locked in cells in America. “Local, state and federal spending on corrections adds up to about $68 billion a year,” says Virginia’s Senator, Jim Webb.
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