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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 9 18:13:27 PDT 2007


On Sep 9, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:


> The US has a lot of people in prison because the US has a lot of
> criminals, end of story.

I'm not sure of that. I thought that U.S. crime rates, aside from gun- induced murders, are comparable to Western Europe's. We only stand out on murder. Or so I remember. We just criminalize more stuff.

Doug



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