Then the solution, it seems, would not be abolishing imprisonment, but in making it more even-handed.
--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Most people who are in U.S. prisons right now are there
> because they are poor, black, disabled, or drug users. The
> fact that they committed a "crime" is not actually the key
> factor. I personally know plenty of middle class to upper
> middle class to rich white people who have also committed
> crimes who are not in prison. These crimes include: drug
> manufacture, incest, rape, murder, theft, extortion -- most
> of these, serious, violent crimes.
>