Huh, wait. What the fukk?

[Dad]

Let's play that dinner game everyone loves called "Huh, wait. What the fukk?"

Who's this?


That's the hospice nurse who was sent to jail for growing a personal use amount of marijuana in her basement to ease back pain. She has no previous criminal record and her career as a nurse garnered many professional acknowledgments of stellar care.

Now, who's this?


This is a BART cop who pulled his gun and fired a fatal shot into a man laying on his belly while his partner yelled "bitch ass pudding pop". He claimed to have meant to pull his taser which is of different weight, feel, color and ummmm....is on the other side of his hip. He's a trained law enforcement officer.

Who got MORE time?

Why the pot lady did, of course!

Huh, wait. What the fukk?

[chilidog]

[paco]

Dad, update the ass thread and forget this nonsense.

[ChileCheese]

Keep up the interesting thread actually. Always fun to learn just how fukked up the American justice system is.

[SCRAGGS]

are you fukin serious, i just don't understand the weed laws of this country.

[chilidog]

“According to the US Department of Justice, 30-40 percent of all current prison admissions involve crimes that have no direct or obvious victim other than the perpetrator,” the report shows. “The drug category constitutes the largest offense category, with 31 percent of all prison admissions resulting from such crimes.” Nearly a third of all prison admissions are from non violent drug offenses!

Did you know that one out of every 31 adults in the U.S. is either in prison/jail or on supervised release from incarceration?

That startling statistic is in an article by Senator James Webb of Virginia that appeared in last Sunday’s Parade Magazine. I don’t usually regard this newspaper supplement as a source of sociological wisdom, but Webb’s piece is worth every citizen’s attention. Reform of the criminal justice system and our overburdened prisons is one of his keenest interests, and he has the facts, supplied by the Department of Justice, to back up his call for change.

The prison population in this country is up to 2.3 million. Another 5 million adults are on probation, parole, or other correctional supervision. The U.S. has only 5% of the world’s population but nearly 25% of its prisoners – 756 inmates per 100,000 residents, almost five times the worldwide rate of 158 per 100,000. As Webb says, “Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different – and vastly counterproductive.”

What we’re doing differently is putting a lot of people in prison for relatively minor and nonviolent offenses. According to the DOJ, fully one-third of all prisoners are incarcerated for drug offenses. Almost half of all drug arrests in 2007 involved only marijuana. Almost 60% of those imprisoned for drug offenses have no history of violence or involvement in major drug sales. Four out of five drug arrests are for possession; only one in five is for dealing. While marijuana users are serving prison sentences, the Mexican cartels that bring drugs across our borders and into our communities, at an estimated annual profit of $25 billion, flourish unimpeded, and gangs from other parts of Latin America, Asia, and Europe are getting in on the action. Imprisoning users does nothing to stem the drug trade.

Our prisons are overcrowded and dangerous. People who commit offenses that other countries would treat as medical, mental, or social problems are thrown into institutions where violence is a constant threat and diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis are rampant. Being caught with even a small amount of an illegal drug is enough to ruin a person’s entire future, if he survives prison. According to the DOJ, more than 350,000 adult prisoners are mentally ill. This is some of what we’re getting for the $68 billion we spend on corrections in this country every year.

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That's just sad.

[Dad]

good god. pudding pop?

[SamsNCharge99]

Dad, update the ass thread and forget this nonsense.

paco's life is SBR, that he knows of no other site but this and his betting sites. He needs an ASS thread to get his porn

[chilidog]

Wow, that's scary. According to those statistics, that's a total of 7.3 million people dealing with the correctional system. We spend $68 billion per year on corrections. That equates to almost $30,000 a year, per person that is currently in prison, and about $9,300 per person per year for everybody in the correctional system (whether in prison, on probation, parole, supervision, etc). All that freaking money that we're spending. The DOJ says that 33% of those in prison are drug related. 750,000 people, that we're each paying $30,000 a year to keep them in jail.

The average American income is around $43,000 a year.

[Dad]

Dad, update the ass thread and forget this nonsense.

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