Mind-blowing Reminder of the Day

  • The United States’ accumulation of federal crimes is 50 volumes, over 23,000 pages in length; and while the exact number of laws is unknown, it is easily over 10,000.
  • The number of prisoners per capita in the US is ~715 per 100,000 people, for a total of over 2 million imprisoned.

Seems as though the fear of punishment via incarceration as a method to discourage unwanted behavior isn’t working…

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