Lunchtime Chat: Prisons

There were so many things we talked about today:
* Bush is a great guy
* AP: Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison
+ 2,319,258 Americans were in jail or prison
+ one out of every 99.1 adults
+ one out of every 30 males between the ages 20 and 34
+ one out of every 9 black males between the ages 20 and 34
+ 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year
+ http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org
The solutions mentioned at lunch today have all been tried before: let them go, let them work, let them fight, send them to the moon, give them land, kill them all, etc,... But there is a real problem, and what is a real solution?

There were some other interesting things discussed too, right?

--Tom