From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 16:38:11 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>> What would 'DC' stand for in the case that it meant 'offenses
>> while in prison'?
>
> Department of Correction offenses is my guess, based on some desultory
> googling.
Oh, I guess that would make sense. :) Still don't know for sure that it
isn't that, even.
> Damien Broderick
> [but what would I know?]
> [it does seem rather odd, though, to segregate a separate tally of crimes
> from one part of the USA]
The USA is a patchwork of overlapping jurisdictions, except for that little
bit called Washington, D.C., which has only Federal jurisdiction, if I
understand correctly.
Congress administers it directly, in theory.
Anyway, I'll stop now, since I'm running rather far afield from
extropian matters.
-- 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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