On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:16 AM, ss <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote: > Overcriminalization of society already exists (in many places). The criminals > stay out of jail. The world will feel like jail for anyone who doesn't belong > I guess.
In the US it's a particular aberration of the free markets - they build jails as profitable businesses where the state pays an entrepreneur for every prisoner - so these entrepreneurs elect law makers who enact laws that push ever greater numbers of people into prison. For example making crack cocaine possession more severely punishable than powder cocaine (which rich white people with lawyers use) is pointed out as a jail filling ruse. Cheeni
