[lbo-talk] Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 9 16:22:17 PDT 2007


--- "J. Tyler" <unspeakable.one at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Incidently I
> > think the reason we're closer to (but still beat)
> places like Russia, is
> > because for all the other kinds of corruption in
> the US, the legal
> > system is relatively less corrupt than some of
> those other places.
>
> You haven't spent much time in the South, have you?
>

I don't know what the US South is like, but the Russian legal system is indeed really corrupt (comparable to India, I guess). Although Nigerians in Russia have told me that it beats the Hell out of theirs.

Russia does have a lot of crime, in any case.

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