At the moment I’m listening to a bit of music that I enjoyed back in my college days at ECU in Greenville – Yes, The Yes Album from 1971. It has brought back wonderful memories of old friends and old vices. And I miss them both!
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There is something very wrong with our society and with our government – as an example I present a little fact I ran across:
The United States is the world leader in its rate of incarceration. As of June 30, 2001 there were 1,965,495 inmates held in federal and state prisons and local jails, with an incarceration rate of 690 persons per 100,000. This places the U.S. ahead of second-place Russia (676 per 100,000) as the world leader in incarceration, both by rate and in absolute terms. Most nations in western Europe incarcerate their citizens at a rate ranging from 60-130 per 100,000.
Sources: The Sentencing Project analysis of the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics study, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2001.
