You have to be kidding, America is 5% of the world’s population and we house 25% of the world’s prisoners. You don't even have to be smart to see that there is something wrong with those numbers. The numbers are so out of whack that it is really statistically impossible that we have so many criminals. Our judicial system is a joke and why am I not surprised that the redest of red states have jail more innocent people than any other state. At their worst Communist China nor Russia ever imprisoned as many of their citizens as we now have in our fascist penal system. Please 2.4 million is supposed to be compensation for spending 30 years in jail? Yeah right.
Texan declared innocent after 30 years in prison
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He had a record already and he would have eventually broken the law anyway.
We need to stop sending drug users to jail. That just doesn't make any sense. I understand having to scare straight someone for driving under the influence but really, other than driving how does smoking a little pot really hurt anyone?
I totally agree on that point, the only thing that sending drug users to jail accomplishes is that they become more hardened criminals as they are initiated into the criminal underground. Marijuana should be legalized anyways that would save a huge chunk of money as well as choke off the bloodlines of the Mexican drug lords.
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In some nations, the woman is considered the guilty one in a rape. In some, a person's hand is cut off for stealing. Seriously, you cannot compare our rates of imprisonment without looking at the entire picture.
I've been reading a couple great fiction books by Tami Hoag. She has two that are based in the mid 80s before there were many computers, DNA testing, or links between systems. They are well done and eye opening. In this case, he was convicted by an eyewitness testimony and a jury.
In your efforts to impugn red states you missed the WHY Texas has so many convictions overturned based on DNA evidence. It's NOT because they have wrongfully convicted more than other states.
Dallas County's record of DNA exonerations - Dupree is No. 21 - is unmatched nationally because the county crime lab maintains biological evidence even decades after a conviction, leaving samples available to test. In addition, Watkins, the DA, has cooperated with innocence groups in reviewing hundreds of requests by inmates for DNA testing.
I've been reading a couple great fiction books by Tami Hoag. She has two that are based in the mid 80s before there were many computers, DNA testing, or links between systems. They are well done and eye opening. In this case, he was convicted by an eyewitness testimony and a jury.
In your efforts to impugn red states you missed the WHY Texas has so many convictions overturned based on DNA evidence. It's NOT because they have wrongfully convicted more than other states.
Dallas County's record of DNA exonerations - Dupree is No. 21 - is unmatched nationally because the county crime lab maintains biological evidence even decades after a conviction, leaving samples available to test. In addition, Watkins, the DA, has cooperated with innocence groups in reviewing hundreds of requests by inmates for DNA testing.
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How about all the tax money that would come in from legalization and as you insinuated, the less resources we would have to spend on the borders checking for marijuana in cars, policing the cartels, etal.. Not to mention the money saved on the incarceration of individuals that pose no threat to anyone...unless you include themselves.
Privatize your prisons and they will never be anything but full. Privatize your wars and they will never be anything but endless.
No, he's never been about freedom in any way.
I'm good with all that....Even Pat Robertson of all people recently came out in favor of legalizing pot:
Since when did he grow a brain?
It may be that case that Dallas county has more overturned convictions due to their lab maintaining bio evidence, or that could just be a convenient excuse. Texas overall still has the highest overturned convictions nationally until proven otherwise. It really does call into question just how many innocent people are currently jailed nationally; the numbers have to be in the thousands. And wasn't Texas the state that recently executeded an innocent prisoner....I thought so.
There is zero proof that thousands of innocent people are in jail. In a state with a very large population and more agressive testing of dna to confirm or deny innocence, saying 21 cases overtuned is an 'excuse' is not only lame but statistically ludicrous. You want so badly to find something wrong with a red state that you can't even recognize the efforts, far and above those in your blue states.
He always had one. You were just too slow to know it!
No, you don't think at all. That's your problem.
Do you know how many people die in DUI car crashes? Which are you for doing away with? Booze or automobiles? No human activity is going to be free of human error, even medical care. People die from medication errors. Shall we do away with meds?
Take your crying towel and leave.
exactly!
1 for sure, a possible second the innocence project is still working but that bastard neothug christianofascist is blocking progress on the investigation
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann
Well then, that just goes to show you what kind of incoming congress the GOP is inflicting on the american people. Darrell Issa, Chrm of Oversight, a record of three times car theft and suspected arson.
Eventually, right?
Dont think for one moment these rethugs all of a sudden found empathy. Old Pat is probably sparking up a blunt or two himself while counting that 700 Club money. Wouldnt surprise me if he's distributing it either. He is after all, dabbling in Sierra Leone blood diamonds.
They are always for OTHER people paying the price until its THEIR ass on the line. See Rush L who called for imprisoning drug users until HE got caught. Im not fooled.
we should let the murderes run free as long as they promise to kill libtards.
No, you are a fool. Big difference between Rush who was a VICTIM of medical addiction for a legitimate medical problem and recreational drug users.
Gateway drug Rush and his recreational use with whom he by-passed the LEGAL channels of obtaining it.
Sorry but YOU lose.
Instances of recreational use and diversion of OxyContin have increased in the U.S. beginning in the late 1990s.[76] The slang term hillbilly heroin for OxyContin refers to the occurrence of the "earliest reported cases of Oxycontin abuse" in the U.S. in rural areas such as Appalachia.[77] Diversion of OxyContin in the U.S. may occur through "fraudulent prescriptions, doctor shopping, over-prescribing, and pharmacy theft."[76]
A 2003 study by the Government Accountability Office found four factors that may have contributed to the illicit use and distribution of OxyContin in the U.S.:[11]
OxyContin contains a large amount of oxycodone compared with other types of oxycodone containing pills.
OxyContin's warning label said to not crush the controlled-release tablets because of the potential for rapid release of oxycodone, which led to many people crushing the tablets and injecting or snorting the drug.
By 2001, sales of OxyContin in the U.S. exceeded $1 billion per year.
People who received prescriptions for OxyContin from across the United States and almost all socioeconomic status have perceived a "profit potential" in selling the pills to drug dealers (e.g., 30 mg of OxyContin could be sold for $30-35. ) [78].
A study published in 2005 examined the prevalence of opiate analgesic use among "recreational drug users and street addicts" as perceived by "key informants" throughout the U.S.; the authors found that non-clinical use of opiates was increasing in general, but that of the drugs studied use of OxyContin "was mentioned most frequently."[79] Purdue Pharma has attempted to reformulate the 10–40 mg strengths of OxyContin to prevent the release of a high percentage of the oxycodone by crushing; however, in 2008 a joint panel convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was "concerned that abusers could find a way to manipulate the new formulation."[80]
One investigation in Boston found that OxyContin was a "gateway" drug for heroin, which addicts turned to as cheaper alternative.[81]
A 2003 study by the Government Accountability Office found four factors that may have contributed to the illicit use and distribution of OxyContin in the U.S.:[11]
OxyContin contains a large amount of oxycodone compared with other types of oxycodone containing pills.
OxyContin's warning label said to not crush the controlled-release tablets because of the potential for rapid release of oxycodone, which led to many people crushing the tablets and injecting or snorting the drug.
By 2001, sales of OxyContin in the U.S. exceeded $1 billion per year.
People who received prescriptions for OxyContin from across the United States and almost all socioeconomic status have perceived a "profit potential" in selling the pills to drug dealers (e.g., 30 mg of OxyContin could be sold for $30-35. ) [78].
A study published in 2005 examined the prevalence of opiate analgesic use among "recreational drug users and street addicts" as perceived by "key informants" throughout the U.S.; the authors found that non-clinical use of opiates was increasing in general, but that of the drugs studied use of OxyContin "was mentioned most frequently."[79] Purdue Pharma has attempted to reformulate the 10–40 mg strengths of OxyContin to prevent the release of a high percentage of the oxycodone by crushing; however, in 2008 a joint panel convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was "concerned that abusers could find a way to manipulate the new formulation."[80]
One investigation in Boston found that OxyContin was a "gateway" drug for heroin, which addicts turned to as cheaper alternative.[81]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone