Wednesday, May 18, 2011
How our prison policies look from abroad
Watch this video clip of Steven Fry talking about our U.S. prison system and how "we may have found a way to reinstitute slavery." This is a comedy bit from a mainstream TV show in Great Britain, but it is spot on. And watch how the panel finds it more and more difficult to find anything funny to say. At all.
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This is another one of the many examples of waste that have contributed to the debt problems the U.S. is facing. 37 billion dollars is spent on the prison system every year. And that doesn't even include all of the costs incurred from investigating, arresting, and prosecuting each future convict.
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