WV’s quandary: no crime rate increase; but prison population quadrupled.

[specsaregood]

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[jkr]

overall its about states trying to figure out how to grow prison populations.

[thoughtomator]

Josef Stalin, eat your heart out

[ShaneEnochs]

It's all of these "tough on crime" people that get elected. You go to jail for just about anything here.

[Yieu]

At some point, after so many people are in prison for non-crimes, you have to question if there comes a point where it becomes a transition of prisons becoming camps, at least to a degree. People in concentration camps tend to not have committed a crime, yet get locked up. As they expand the definition of "crime", more people who haven't committed real crimes are going to get locked up.