December 5, 2012 at 6:01 am
#779067
datamuse
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Skeeter, as a follow up to your point, please go and look up how many prisons in this country are run by for profit corporations.
Then, consider what that implies with regard to our rate of incarceration (which, indeed, is very high, among the highest if not the highest in the world) and what sorts of things are considered crimes.
As an added bonus, look up under what aegis many of our largest-scale national infrastructure projects were constructed. (Hint: it has to do with poverty.)