Any chance THAT will ever be enacted into law?

http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate

One of the points it makes is that the campaign against the death penalty has distracted attention from something arguably worse: the huge increase in incarceration rates since the seventies. I abhor the death penalty, but this article provided food for thought.

Compared with the horrors of garden variety American incarceration, though, the death penalty can be viewed only as a distraction. An extremely small number of people are executed in the United States—fewer than thirty a year, on average, in the last three decades. But at any given moment, a full 7 million people are under some form of regular surveillance from the correctional system. More African Americans are in prison today than were enslaved in the 1850s
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after execution was reinstated in 1976, many activists who might have spent their lives focusing on prisons switched their attention to a narratively vivid but politically minor bugaboo

The article is well worth reading and I am still thinking about what it says.

You clearly did not grow-up as close to trailer parks as I did.

This was the one I had in mind.

And thanks for teaching me a new word today. Had to go look up “lagniappe”.