allright, i always loose patience cause im not into the whole debating thing
but here you go
according to cnn in this report
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/27/census.prisons.ap/
More than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in college dorms, The ratio is only slightly better for Hispanics, at 2.7 inmates for every Latino in college housing
Blacks made up 41 percent of the nation's 2 million prison and jail inmates in 2006. Non-Hispanic whites made up 37 percent and Hispanics made up 19 percent.
http://www.ushrnetwork.org/files/ushrn/images/linkfiles/CERD%20Report%204-07.pdf
This disfranchisement disproportionately affects U.S. Blacks and Latinos, who are 60% of the U.S. prison population,
but only 27% of the total population
By being black and living in Washington, you are 56x more likely to go to prison than a white person
my point is, The Ghetto is a trap, its hard living there, its hard growing up there
The US Government knows this, and by not showing any effective sign of improvement (judging from 2001 census compared to todays), it simply states.. it does not care for fixing the problem
I dont care if they supposedly "tried" or made it look like they gave a shit
it is 2008, there is no excuse
(they can get man on the moon, but they cant figure out a way to effectively fix those numbers? c'mon you cant be serious"
i feel that prisoners should be more focused on getting treated , than getting tortured
sure you want them to suffer for what they have done
but look at it this way
if your dog does something wrong, and you mistreat it, slap around and torture it, will it behave better?
No, it will get more aggressive
then you throw it in the park and expect it to not bite anybody
meaning,
a fucked up prisoner, will fuck up again
in the same place, that got him in prison in the first place
unless they find religion, or get helped by those programs
thats why i feel that prisoners should have those privileges
because the ghetto is a trap
you can go to
http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/ if you would like to read more
Paige M. Harrison and Allen J. Beck, Prisoners in 2005, Bureau of Justice Statistics, p. 8 (November 2006) available at
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p05.pdf (last viewed September: 26, 2007)
......blahhhhhh