Business is booming for private prisons
Is business booming for prisons such that prisoners are forming their own communities within the prison, like we see in Peru?
That's not a good thing.
Quote: Originally Posted by petros
If you were to imprison 5000 women, How many medical staff do you think there should be to ensure the health, safety and rehabilitation of those 5000 women?
50:1? 100:1? 200:1?
Take a wild crack at what the ratio is.
5:1, just like childcare.
Quote: Originally Posted by OmicronHow come China with more than ten times the US population has fewer prisoners in absolute count.
What the f@ck is it about Caucasians the dumb ones can't avoid witch-burning?
Japan also has a lower ratio of crime to population, but that's because police records let slip the follow up required to solve the case.
There's nothing dumb. It's not that the population is less inclined to break the law, but that the law is less inclined to act quickly to solve the case. If a woman is missing, they attribute it to a willing disappearance until someone like Tony Blair speaks to the Japanese Prime Minister about the absence of resolve to solve the case. That is what is going on in China with their low crime rate ... a shift in terms of police letting a lot of things slide because it keeps the record clean ... rather than a low crime rate per population.
