From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Sun Jul 28 2002 - 09:29:48 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Charles writes
>
>>The reactions to power and dominance in constrained situations is a quite
>>complex topic, and I'm certainly no expert. But prisons are just one place
>>on the edge of society, and the people there are basically the same as the
>>people everywhere else. If they tend to go in a certain direction after you
>>put them there...
>
> I really am amazed that you could think they start out the same as people
> not convicted of crimes, and only then become different. Oh well.
According to http://www.bop.gov/fact0598.html#Offense , at least 64.2
percent of the people that are in federal prison right now are there
for nothing I would consider a crime. They are just like you or me.
Because of the way statistics are grouped, I can only say for sure that
at least 14.6 are there for something I would consider a crime.
There are so many laws on the books that no one can know whether they
have violated one or more, so at least 64% of people currently in
prison are different mostly in that someone decided it was worth
apprehending and prosecuting them, and not you.
Yet.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "Congress keeps telling me I ain't causin' nuthin' but problems and now they're sayin' I'm in trouble with the government; I'm lovin' it" -- Eminem
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