http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/03/11/glenn-loury/a-nation-of-jailers/ Big Ideas for a Better World Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:24:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/03/11/glenn-loury/a-nation-of-jailers/comment-page-1/#comment-348373 A Nation of Jailers « roger hollander Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:47:08 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=1465#comment-348373 [...] Glenn Loury http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/03/11/glenn-loury/a-nation-of-jailers/ March 11th, [...] [...] Glenn Loury http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/03/11/glenn-loury/a-nation-of-jailers/ March 11th, [...]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/03/11/glenn-loury/a-nation-of-jailers/comment-page-1/#comment-348124 EconTech » Links for 2009.05.31 Sun, 31 May 2009 23:30:29 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=1465#comment-348124 [...] Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » A Nation of JailersIf I am ever asked about my biggest complaint of our society, I will harp on our incarceration system. This is a pretty good piece reflecting the enormous injustice that ‘hard on crime’ types have inflicted on our society. [...] [...] Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » A Nation of JailersIf I am ever asked about my biggest complaint of our society, I will harp on our incarceration system. This is a pretty good piece reflecting the enormous injustice that ‘hard on crime’ types have inflicted on our society. [...]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/03/11/glenn-loury/a-nation-of-jailers/comment-page-1/#comment-345703 Rule of Law Applies to the Little People, It’s NOT for US Oligarchs « Dregs of the Future Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:58:02 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=1465#comment-345703 [...] We have, by any measure, become a vastly more punitive society. Measured in constant dollars and taking account of all levels of government, spending on corrections and law enforcement in the United States has more than quadrupled over the last quarter century. As a result, the American prison system has grown into a leviathan unmatched in human history. With approximately one twentieth of the world’s population, America had nearly one fourth of the world’s inmates.  (Source.) [...] [...] We have, by any measure, become a vastly more punitive society. Measured in constant dollars and taking account of all levels of government, spending on corrections and law enforcement in the United States has more than quadrupled over the last quarter century. As a result, the American prison system has grown into a leviathan unmatched in human history. With approximately one twentieth of the world’s population, America had nearly one fourth of the world’s inmates.  (Source.) [...]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/03/11/glenn-loury/a-nation-of-jailers/comment-page-1/#comment-345278 Drasties - Dutch on the World - World on the Dutch Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:09:18 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=1465#comment-345278 [...] and virtually every other country in the world — to become what Brown University Professor Glenn Loury recently described as a “a nation of jailers” whose “prison system has grown into a leviathan [...] [...] and virtually every other country in the world — to become what Brown University Professor Glenn Loury recently described as a “a nation of jailers” whose “prison system has grown into a leviathan [...]

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