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> >I also do not think that locking these guys up is necessarily a bad thing.
One thing I will say today. Apparently you are unaware that women constitute one of the fastest growing sectors of the prison population. Here's California stats from 2000. I'm too busy to look up more, but I can assure you the trend has not changed since.
>Since mandatory-sentencing laws went into effect in the mid 1980's,
>the California female prison population has skyrocketed. At the end
>of 1986, women in California's prisons totaled 3,564. As of
>September 2000, the female population now numbers 11,091 -- an
>increase of 311% in fourteen years (California Department of
>Corrections [CDC] Data).