happyscrappy

FTFA:

>Well, the real growth in the prison population comes from county-level district attorneys sending violent people to prison.

If the article's conclusion was the title it would not even be on HN.

Don't impugn the ACLU with your lack of understanding of how percentages work.

Edit: LesZedCB just deleted his comment where he adds two different percentage groups from the ACLU site.

Did you just add two separate percentages together? Facepalm.

Edit: LesZedCB just deleted his comment where he indignantly told me that 6% of state prisoners plus 16% of federal prisoners equals 22% of all prisoners.

The conclusion of your linked article is:

>Well, the real growth in the prison population comes from county-level district attorneys sending violent people to prison.

FTA:

>Well, the real growth in the prison population comes from county-level district attorneys sending violent people to prison.

The US is by far the most violent western nation.

Many are willing to have the conversation, but the majority want to be tougher on crime.

Someone would have to do a survey but I would guess that 90% of Europeans buy into it. Of course they also believe that they will be carjacked if they come to the US so I don't think their opinions are useful.

There was a movement to get everyone to decline all plea bargains to try to swamp the system, but of course these are criminals who will likely lose their case in court and end up serving a longer sentence so it never went anywhere.

I know people don't want to hear it but private prisons are only 8%, but keep on believing what you need to.

>Well, the real growth in the prison population comes from county-level district attorneys sending violent people to prison.

Actually a lot of judges were very opposed to mandatory sentencing because it removes a lot of their power.

The private prison meme is far larger than the actual number, which is eight percent. Elsewhere in this people are asking how much of US manufacturing is from prison labor, I doubt it is large enough to accurately measure.

Nobody wants to see or hear from Hillary Clinton. It is hard to run for President like that, regardless of the Democratic Party's nod that it is her turn. They decided that is was John Kerry's turn and we got four more years of Bush.

All these wells waiting for the price to rise will produce if supply decreases. What is the problem?

>It's not that peak oil didn't happen, or that it wasn't traumatic

What trauma do you mean?

I think he means that the French are insisting that Google not only censor the search results for Frenchmen, but also for Americans. That is never going to fly.

What is the latency like?

The NSA makes the Swedes spy on the Germans? Is there any way they can get control of their country back? And why would they even need to when Germany is littered with US military bases?

Does assisted suicide not break the Hippocratic Oath?

> opportunity to determine whether potassium acetate is compliant with the state’s court-approved execution procedures

Kick the can down the road, typical politician. Of course all his appeals have been used unless new evidence is found. Maybe pg could put his money behind that.

>the co-opting of doctors against their Hippocratic Oath to see the end of another human being's life

So you want to ban abortion? Assisted suicide?

I am opposed to the death penalty for various unpopular reasons and PG is usually very eloquent, I am not sure why that was not the case here. It is all very vague. Calling for a boycott of OK would have made it seem less like slacktivism.

The general mindset of comments on articles like these is they should not be spying on anyone and I said go away not a mere cutback.

Don't know why you are being downvoted. Spy agencies going away is a fantasy that brings into question the sanity of the believer. Better to have moral people there.

Some people have enough hatred of the US to accept Putin. They don't have enough hate to get their own government to stop dealing with the US though.

This isn't Snowden.