[news] Desire to Preserve Wealth Drives Criminal Justice System: Crime is Falling, but Obsession with Locking People Up Keeps Growing

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by George Monbiot - The Guardian

The people who help to generate the public demand for long prison terms (newspaper [owners] and editors) and the people who mete it out (judges and magistrates) are drawn overwhelmingly from the property-owning classes...Money breeds paranoia, and paranoia keeps people in prison.  


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