Life in prison for stealing food

[James Baird]

>> >Could the politicians who have pushed for mandatory sentences and longer
> >prison terms argue that there is less crime because there are more
> >criminals in jail?
>
>They could say that but it still doesn't change the fact that a society
>that jails as many people as the US jails is deeply fucked up.
>
>Doug
>

Wasn't there an Op-ed in the WSJ a few months back that argued that if 
Europe wanted to have a crime rate as low as the U.S. it would have to start 
locking up a lot more people?

Jim Baird

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