An expensive luxury during a recession, states scaled back the war on drugs. Now that recovery has begun, look for more prisons and longer sentences to fill them.
Diversify Your Criminality
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Don’t forget that the prison population, which has been disenfranchised, is counted as residing in the (largely rural) districts in which the prisons are found, thereby giving rural residents greater political representation compared with their urban counterparts, from whom most of the prison population, not least due to Draconian drug laws, is derived and whose political representation is reduced correspondingly. Given the discrepancies between how these populations can be expected to vote, a win-win situation for certain political tendencies – guess which ?…
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