Sunday, May 4, 2008

What else did you expect from the NY Times?

Patterico’s thinks that Adam Liptak doesnt know what hes talking about....

No, Adam Liptak, our main problem is that we are a violent society.

I know you’re used to people telling you that the prisons are filled mostly with first-time drug users and low-level property criminals. But the facts tell a different story. Here is a chart from the U.S. Department of Justice showing that over half of state prisoners in this country are incarcerated for violent offenses like “murder, negligent and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, sexual assault, robbery, assault, extortion, intimidation, criminal endangerment, and other violent offenses.”

Read the whole thing.

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