{"id":26548,"date":"2012-02-21T03:43:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T10:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/thank-goodness-ronald-reagan-ushered-in-an-era-of-law-and-order.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:17:19","slug":"thank-goodness-ronald-reagan-ushered-in-an-era-of-law-and-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/thank-goodness-ronald-reagan-ushered-in-an-era-of-law-and-order.html","title":{"rendered":"Thank goodness Ronald Reagan ushered in an era of law and order"},"content":{"rendered":"

And privatized prisons and "three strikes and you're out" and War on Drugs and … #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Occupy University<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Occupy the Industrial Prison Complex<\/b>
The statistics don't lie. Just a few years after changing the traditional 'philosophy of business', profiteering off crime became acceptable. Today the US with 5% of the worlds population holds 25% of the Worlds prisoners. With authorities under pressure to fill arrest quota's, governments signing guarantees to fill prisons. Judges are under pressure to pass longer sentencing with the full weight of increasingly dubious law behind them such as music piracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And privatized prisons and "three strikes and you're out" and War on Drugs and … #ddtb Reshared post from +Occupy University Occupy the Industrial Prison ComplexThe statistics don't lie. Just a few years after changing the traditional 'philosophy of business', profiteering off crime became acceptable. 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