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Obama Increases Number of Prisons, Cops

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President Obama's 2010 budget proposes $105 million for two new federal prisons. The new budget will also add $3 billion to the Department of Justice budget from 2008 figures, putting 50,000 more cops on the payroll.

That might be necessary since he continues to bailout billionaires and millionaires, while allowing more homeowners to become homeless. 
 

Though only comprising 5% of the world's population, the US jails more citizens, in raw numbers and as a percent, than any other nation on the planet.  Obama proposes to jail another 3,000 citizens, devoting scarce dollars to the prison industrial complex. 

To highlight some prison fun facts from a prior article:

The US convicts people of color at rates far above those for whites, and for longer terms.  In 2006, the incarceration rate per 100,000 for whites was 409, and 2,468 for blacks.  That's an imprisonment rate of nearly 3 in 100 for blacks, or six times higher than for whites.   

With the federal government's war on drug users, women now comprise a growing portion of those imprisoned.  In 1925, the US jailed one in 100,000 women; in 2006, the US jailed one in 746 women. 

In the economically distressed town of Mendota, California, formerly an agriculture community, Mendota officials see economic opportunity in jailing people.  With over $49 million in federal funds, the new prison scheduled to open in 2010 will employ only 314 people.  No one is sure how many, if any, of them will be Mendota citizens. 

Under Obama's proposed federal prison budget, West Virginia will take the remaining $55 million for a new federal prison. 

 

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Sad Truth by Paula Sayles on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 3:27:28 PM
180 Degree Change by Rady Ananda on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 3:48:32 PM
Change you can believe in by Kimmo Salonen on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 3:39:14 PM
trademarks - too funny by Rady Ananda on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 3:55:27 PM
Yep by Kimmo Salonen on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 4:52:12 PM
I'm stealing by richard on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 7:57:28 PM
Secessio plebis by Rady Ananda on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:28:52 PM
Bust 'em all but nine.... by Kyle Griffith on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 6:36:02 PM
Compromises by jeff rock on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 1:49:39 PM
Here is a thought.... by steve scheetz on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 6:56:49 PM
Can't do that! by Kimmo Salonen on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 7:17:21 PM
In addition, by richard on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 8:00:54 PM
leaving it up to the women? by Rady Ananda on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:33:28 PM
Just what we need by Roger Thomas on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8:26:27 AM
vandergrump generator by William Whitten on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8:47:53 AM
Obama Increases Number of Prisons by Dewdazzle on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 10:25:02 AM
Tear Down These Prison Walls by Rady Ananda on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 10:30:47 AM
Alternatives by Jim Finley on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 12:03:40 PM
Serious Laspes in Judgment and Prison Health Care by jeff rock on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 1:19:59 PM
Lapses in judgment by Jim Finley on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 3:22:58 PM

 
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