re: #459 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

We kind of disagree there. We do have a bunch of prisoners… but we keep them in much much better conditions that can be found in most other parts of the world.

It’s still a problem that we imprison a higher percentage of our society than any other country. We have a bigger slice of our people in jail than the Soviet Union did.

It’s a problem both in terms of economics— those are unproductive people, in our jails, except where they’re being exploited— and in terms of morality. Prison should be reformative; it is not.

That we treat people better than other places is good, but it’s not as good as not having them in jail in the first place.