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Re:United States incarceration rate by oleganza on Sunday June 09, 2013 @12:13PM (#5849397)
How much of the crimes are caused by the state programs? When 99,9% of children in the most crucial age for development (7-17 years) are educated in state schools, isn't government responsible for those people misbehaving?

Also, how many laws there are for victimless crimes? That only increases tension between armed police and other folks? How many restrictions are put in economy that keeps poor people poor and desperate?

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Re:United States incarceration rate by rsheridan6 on Sunday June 09, 2013 @12:55PM (#5849559)
There may be people imprisoned for victimless crimes, but you would have to be very naive to think the US wasn't a genuinely more dangerous place with more victimfull crime than other developed countries.

Most US kids have been educated in government schools before, during, and after the crime wave of the 60s-early 90s.

What restrictions keep people poor and desperate? Name a specific one, if one exists.

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