>1) "We have a corrections sector that employs more Americans than the
>combined work forces of General Motors, Ford, and Wal-Mart, the three
>largest corporate employers in the country" -- I knew it was huge, but
>not that huge -- I mean, wow.
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>2) The "frontlash" theory described below sounds about right to me. I
>wonder if skyrocketing incarceration rates will emerge in Europe in
>response to increased unease about immigrant populations. Sarkozy's
>blustering aside, is there any indication that Europeans are growing
>more receptive to using incarceration as a major method of solving
>social ills?
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>-WD
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It was partly a reaction to the civil rights movement. It was also a
jobs program for all those unionized industrial workers that lost
everything in the seventies and eighties.
Joanna