Welcome to america, the land of the largest prison population in the world (among the highest incarceration rate). 25% of the world's prisoners, to be exact, even with only 5% of the world's population. Yea, it says alot when communist north korea has a lower incarceration rate than America.
It also speaks volumes when a 19 year old texan kid has the potential to get life in prison for pot brownies but another texas woman gets 2 years for ripping off her 6 year old son's genitals and trying to glue them back on. This country is so grotesquely fixated on its drug war, but not real psychos. The U.S, at the very least in its judicial system, is as backwards as its ever been.
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A popular Government without popular information nor the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives
- James Madison
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