[extropy-chat] US Prison Population (was Futures politics)

[Amara Graps]

>Do we ever get to see official sources for these statistics?

The Economist has a long article on this topic (I seem to remember more
than one published in this magazine on this topic, but I cannot find it,
so maybe I was thinking of another source)

"Justice in America : Too many convicts"
Aug 8th 2002

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1270755


And an article from Business Week about the costs
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2005/nf20050228_1996_db013.htm

Amara

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