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"Politics is the art of the possible" - Otto Von Bismark
Glenn Greenwald: An Interview with The Art of the Possible
(posted by Paige)
For a helpful visual aid on how the US compares to other countries on incarceration rates, check out Pete Guither’s Drug War Rant :
This is a good time to remind folks graphically of what we’re doing:
The United States has 5% of the world’s population…… but 25% of the world’s prison population. We dramatically lead the entire world in incarceration rates.
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February 29th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Paige, on that issue, you might be interesting in a post I wrote at Greenwald’s pre-Salon blog (under the pseudonym “Hypatia”), with assist from Pete Guither:Prison & the War on Drugs: Just Say No