incarceration politics

[Michael Hoover]

> there is another problem: once you increase the
> rate of incarceration, you are not only changing the shape of the present
> but also that of the future, in that ex-convicts, even after serving their
> time, will be still stigmatized and face a prospect of underemployment and
> lower income. 
> Yoshie

also future electorates since felony convictions generally mean losing 
one's right to vote...Michael Hoover