A must read for anyone who is concerned about
the prison population and what can be done about it can be found in the recent
Op-Ed Column by Bill Keller, former editor of the Star-ledger and published in
the New York Times, can be found by the link below:
Great
article for anyone interested in the state of affairs in the United States as it relates to our love
for prisons and putting people behind bars.
There
is no question that the “war on drugs” is a failure and has done nothing to
stem the tide of people addicted to legal and illegal substances. As long as the pharmaceutical companies are
making billons of dollars in selling and pushing dangerous narcotics such as
Oxycodone and Roxycodone and other dangerous and addictive drugs people will
become addicted. Chase them, catch them
and jail them is not the answer, the answer is strong family structures, religion
and the church, change in social values, jobs, and education.
Why
spend the amount to house someone in prison for a year at the same cost as
sending someone to vocational training, or college. ?
Problem
of trying to solve every social ill by locking people up is futile and not
moral. The problem is compounded by the
fact that jails are now a big business in the United States, and the more people
locked up the more profits. Today the
jail business is a big business, and Wall Street and corporate America is now making enormous
profits in locking people up. The more
people locked up regardless of the reason, the more merrier for them, and
corporate profits.
Who
pays, we pay, of course. An
international scandal for the United States. But of course we go to war to teach people
about democracy and to do the right thing (sure).
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Dated: February
7, 2014
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