Prison State America

PRISON STATE AMERICA

The Harvest of a Predatory Jungle System

By: Dr. Stefan Grossmann, 3-1-8

1. Among public officials who work with international and comparative population statistics, it is well-known that the standards of compiling statistics vary from nation to nation. This can make it difficult to compare the population statistics of one nation with the statistics of another nation. The problem is particularly compounded with certain statistics coming from the U.S.A., such as the U.S. poverty statistics. These are notoriously „cooked” to make it look as if the U.S.A. has a dominant well-to-do middle class. That story used to be true until the end of the 1970s when national wealth was in the hands of roughly 80% of the U.S. population. End of 2003, according to best estimates of knowledgeable sources, roughly 85% of the national wealth was controlled by a segment of less than 1% of the U.S. population. The tendency of wealth monopolization in America is on the incline. Americans are fast becoming suckers and paupers living in a fantasy world of reminiscences of grandeur and debilitating lies.

Poverty breeds crime rates. The spiral is vicious, especially if people were once used to being affluent.

2. German news,

http://nachrichten.t-online.de/c/14/38/70/14/14387014.html

on 2008-02-29 released a report about the whopping U.S. prison rates. The summary is taken from a newly released report of the PEW Center on the States,

http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=31976

CAUTION: The beginning of the PEW Center presentation is groomed and cooked according to the demands of Policital Correctness. You will have to delve into their PDF report and read through all of it to find an outline of the true situation. Their 52 page PDF report is linked at the bottom of the page just quoted, namely in form of the following link, copied into this article from their page:

ASSOCIATED REPORT (PDF):

Public Safety, Public Spending: Forecasting America’s Prison Population 2007-2011

„For the first time in history more than one in every 100 adults in America are in jail or prison—a fact that significantly impacts state budgets without delivering a clear return on public safety.”

http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=31976

Here is TABLE 1 from digital page 12 of the foregoing PEW Prison Report:

TABLE 1.jpg

It is notorious among the legal profession that the United States of America is the number one prison state on the planet. That is reflected by the foregoing statistics (compared with other cooked U.S. statistics, the reality is 50%-100% worse than reflected here, but that is only an estimate).

3. After reading through the report (forget the introductory notes of the PEW presentation), one out of 100 adult Americans is in prison (including jail). That is the world record. According to the PEW, at the beginning of 2008 there were 2.32 million people in American prisons, 25,000 more than one year earlier.

China, the most populous nation on the planet, has an estimated prison population of 1.5 million. Germany has a prison population (including detention) of about 77,000, that is about 0.15% of the adult population.

The U.S.A. spend more than $30 billion annually for their prison population, more than four times as much than 20 years ago. The conditions in American prisons are frequently at sub-human or inhumane standards. About every other inmate finds back to imprisonment within three years.

Here are some notes from digital page 11 of the PEW Prison Report:

„The past three decades have witnessed an historic increase in the nation’s penal system at all levels. In 1970, the state and federal prison population was less than 190,000. The latest report by the U.S. Department of Justice puts the 2005 population at nearly 1.5 million. Further, almost 750,000 people are incarcerated in local jails, resulting in a total incarcerated population of almost 2.2 million, or 737 per 100,000 U.S. population.

Put differently, for every 1,000 U.S. residents, seven are incarcerated either in jail or prison on any given day. Each year, over 600,000 people are admitted to state and federal prisons. A much larger number (over 10 million) go to local jails. There are another 4.3 million ex-convicts living in the U.S.

The U.S. imprisons significantly more people than any other nation. China ranks second, imprisoning 1.5 million of its much larger citizen population. The U.S. also leads the world in incarceration rates, well above Russia and Cuba, which have the next highest rates of 607 and 487 per 100,000. Western European countries have incarceration rates that range from 78 to 145 per 100,000.

Probation and parole populations have skyrocketed alongside the rapid growth in the state and federal prison systems. Since 1980, the total correctional population has grown from 1.8 million to over 7 million people (Table 1). While the prison population has grown at the fastest rate, more than 4 million adults are on probation, making that the largest component of the correctional system; it too has nearly tripled since 1980.”

The prison population of the following segment of American society is practically nil: corrupt politicians, corrupt generals, corrupt judges, corrupt media bosses. The entire intelligence community and the global terror and drug czars in the Pentagon, a continuation of Nazi Germany in emigration, are exempt and immune from criminal prosecution. The system is a thinly veiled mafiose jungle system of grand crime.

Regarding corrupt judges: The U.S. legal system no longer permits honest judges. Today and for some years now, no upright person can become a judge any longer in America. Federal judgeships are sold, or in rare cases handed to cronies for free as part of deals. The system is politically controlled, not independent, and extremely rotten. It is controlled by the intelligence community, death threats and hit squads. That is what the best reports tell us; and I tend to believe them.

This information relates to appointments, cases with political implications (such as rampant election fraud, Chappaquiddick and Matamoros-Brownsville type murder cases, etc.) and/or cases involving corporation and corporate law firms. The constitutional model of a criminal trial is practically abolished except for multi-millionaire defendants who can afford the attorney fees. All others go in the meat grinder of prosecutorial discretion called „plea bargaining”. There is nothing inherently unfair about it, but the way this method is handled is typically slanted showing racial and class bias to the disfavor of the poor; and it has its legal safeguards abolished that were hallmarks of the former but now deteriorated rule of law. The name of American lawyers in the population is very negative, a reflection of this sinister situation of plutocratic class justice.

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