The more prisoners you have, the more correctional jobs and construction jobs you have, plus it keeps the ranks of the unemployed down by removing potential non-workers from the system and leaving jobs that need to be filled by the un-incarcerated. It's a big public works issue. No sense closing all those prisons just because other crime rates are going down. Besides, with non-violent drug offenders becoming the norm for prisoners those jobs are much more attractive.
It's a joke. The war on drugs is ridiculous and wasteful. We've spent hundreds of billions of dollars on it and I can still go down to the corner or make 2 phone calls and get anything I want.
All we do is drive up the price that terrorist orgs can make supplying drugs and provide law-enforcement and penitentiary gigs on taxpayer dime. Oh yeah, and get innocent people around the world - and right here at home - killed.
We have 500,000 people in prison who don't need to be there, many of whom are there for life while murderers are eligible for early release due to prison over-crowding and they are not.
We can talk about Russian gulags and shooting people in the street, but is the velvet glove of our ridiculous drug war somehow more clean or just?
Being quieter and less immediately lethal doesn't make its destruction any less.
/rant
~G
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