Re: Six months for 10 plants

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:58:15 GMT, Capt.Rock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Captain Rock)
wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:46:18 +0100, Dr John Watson
><drjohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Noticed at Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:34:06 +0000: Captain Rock informed us:
>>
>>> Throw every last one of you stoners in jail.
>>
>>That's 80% of the USA in jail, then (and the majority of the UK
>>parliament, if we did it here).
>
>Urban myth... You druggies are fond of spreading that misinformation.
>
>Here are the real facts:
>
># n 2000, an estimated 57% of Federal inmates and 21% of State inmates
>were serving a sentence for a drug offense; about 10% of Federal
>inmates and 49% of State inmates were in prison for a violent offense.
>
># Violent offenders accounted for 53% of the growth in State prisons
>between 1990 to 2000, drug offenders accounted for 59% of the growth
>in Federal prisons.
>    *  Half of jail inmates in 2002 were held for a violent or drug
>offense, almost unchanged from 1996.
>    * Drug offenders, up 37%, represented the largest source of jail
>population growth between 1996 and 2002.
>    * More than two-thirds of the growth in inmates held in local
>jails for drug law violations was due to an increase in persons
>charged with drug trafficking.
>    * Thirty-seven percent of jail inmates were convicted on a new
>charge; 18% were convicted on prior charges following revocation of
>probation or parole; 16% were both convicted of a prior charge and
>awaiting trial on a new charge; and 28% were unconvicted.
>#  Half (50%) of convicted jail inmates were under the influence of
>drugs or alcohol at the time of the offense, down from 59% in 1996.
># Three out of every four convicted jail inmates were alcohol or
>drugs-involved at the time of their current offense.
># Alcohol use at the time of the offense dropped from 41% (1996) to
>35% (2002), while drug use dropped from 35% to 29%.
># Average sentence length of inmates serving their time in a local
>jail increased from 22 months in 1996 to 24 months in 2002.
>
>>
>>You have the highest incarceration rate in the world - another thing for
>>you Americans to be proud of - so, please go for it.
>Look at you wankers. You just let your crooks go back into society so
>the can victimize the innocent.
>
>
>>> Captain Rock
>>> Narcotics Division
>>-- 
>>Dr John Watson
>>Baker Street
>>


 Any chance of seeing those figures broken down by colour? ie What
percentage of people in jail for drug "abuse" are non-white and is
that figure perhaps more a reflection of America's inherent and
institutionalised racism than a reflection of the "wrong" doing of
drug users?