More ruminations, rambles, rants and raves from the downhill side of the mountain.
Just so you know exactly where I stand vis-a-vis today's polarized politics, let me recommend this organization to you.
And I also recommend my gentle employer to you as well. The Barnes & Noble Affiliate Network, which seemed to have stopped working, is back in operation, so the links and banners are working again.
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And I also recommend my gentle employer to you as well. The Barnes & Noble Affiliate Network, which seemed to have stopped working, is back in operation, so the links and banners are working again.
Now, go buy some books.
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Fox Den: Creative (i.e. Fiction)Writing
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Ian's Knowledge Modelling Weblog
Future Scan: Future Studies Department University of Houston at Clear Lake
PLSJ (aka Anne, the Anthropologist)
link
International
Lost in Transit
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New Jersey New York Pennsylvania and Delaware
Coffee Grounds
Traveling in Style
Slacktivist Recommended with a bullet!
Hoofin To You: Bridgewater, NJ politics
Inadmissible Evidence
Personal/General
Big Black Van
Overflow
In Spite of Years of Silence
Metamorphosism (Mig's new blog)
Real Live Preacher
Blogs with Attitude
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Alas, A Blog
A Fistful of Euros
BuzzMachine
Eschaton
Pedantry
The Poor Man
Barefoot and Naked
Boing Boing
Craigblog
Fafglob
The Road to Surfdom
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E-Mail Me
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What's the Matter with Kansas?
Thursday, March 06, 2003
I stumbled across this little news item tucked away in the "offbeat news" category on Netscape: News at Netscape. Basically, it tells how the French are trying to recruit prison guards. Seems they have some 56,000 people overcrowding their prisons. For the record, France has a population of about 60 million. The US, on the other hand, with a population of 280 million, has a prison population of about 2 million. If we had the same ratio of prisoners to total population that the French have, we would have about 260,000 residents in our prisons.
Now I'm no lover of the French, but these stats are telling. The French prison population is more in line with most other countries in the world (including some countries which we would consider "evil".) It seems that the land of the free puts a higher percentage of its citizens in jail than almost any other country in the world, certainly more than any other First World nation. I find this somewhat disturbing. I find it even more disturbing to note that ethnic and racial minorities make up a disproportionate number of those prisoners. In truth, we still have a long way to go before we get anywhere close to living up to the ideals our founding fathers held up for us to strive for.
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