However, these local changes don't go far enough. The JFA report recommends cutting the prison population in half in order to save $20 billion a year- money that could be better used on social and domestic problems.
"President (George W.) Bush was right," in commuting Libby's perjury sentence this year as excessive, the report says. "But while he was at it, President Bush should have commuted the sentences of hundreds of thousands of Americans who each year have also received prison sentences for crimes that pose little if any danger or harm to our society."
Will there be a change in the US policy anytime soon? It doesn't look like it. As a matter of fact, now that the Bush administration is going ahead with its plan to build gulag- style concentration camps (in a special contract issued to Dick Cheney's Halliburton), it looks as if the US is in line to become the new Soviet Union- with an impressive array of work camps for immigrants, muslims, "thought crime" prisoners, dissidents or who knows what else.
"President (George W.) Bush was right," in commuting Libby's perjury sentence this year as excessive, the report says. "But while he was at it, President Bush should have commuted the sentences of hundreds of thousands of Americans who each year have also received prison sentences for crimes that pose little if any danger or harm to our society."
Will there be a change in the US policy anytime soon? It doesn't look like it. As a matter of fact, now that the Bush administration is going ahead with its plan to build gulag- style concentration camps (in a special contract issued to Dick Cheney's Halliburton), it looks as if the US is in line to become the new Soviet Union- with an impressive array of work camps for immigrants, muslims, "thought crime" prisoners, dissidents or who knows what else.
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