> America has an unbelievable number of prisoners, which makes more careful and humane management effectively impossible.
But that is such a cop out... America has the number of prisoners it has by choice, not due to some inexorable condition which differentiates it from other developed nations.
> But that is such a cop out... America has the number of prisoners it has by choice, not due to some inexorable condition which differentiates it from other developed nations.
> And arguably by the point where you’re locking that many people up, as a society that might be the point.
I already covered that in my original post, please don’t snark over things that were already pointed out.
But that is such a cop out... America has the number of prisoners it has by choice, not due to some inexorable condition which differentiates it from other developed nations.