Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation

Re:Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation by leeoniya on Friday February 26, 2016 @05:00PM (#11184606)

not to mention how much it costs to support an enormous prison population (largest in the world?) and the permanent toll it has on those with criminal records for drug offenses.

do privatized for-profit prisons have a gov't lobby to help fill their cells to max capacity?

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Re:Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation by niccaluim on Saturday February 27, 2016 @01:31AM (#11186298)

largest in the world?

Largest by total number by a huge margin (2.2 million, with the next largest being China with 1.7 million), but we've fallen to the #2 spot when measured per capita. Newly #1 there is Seychelles with about 700 prisoners out of a population of 90,000.

Source: http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_popula...

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Re:Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation by dangerlibrary on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:24PM (#11185942)

Yep. Probably more than one, but a quick google search yielded: http://apcto.org/

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