Prison "states" ... (okay, one more)

[Tiassa]

Okay, one more. This, actually, is the whole of the article.

7. Which State Has More People -- Your State or the Prison State?

Almost a year ago (February), the US incarcerated population passed the two million mark. Earlier this week, the results of the 2000 US Census were released, numbers estimated as of April 1, 2000. How do the populations of the 50 states compare with the prison state?

Nearly a third of them are smaller, some of them much smaller: Alaska, 626,932; Delaware, 783,600; Hawaii, 1,211,537; Idaho, 1,293,953; Maine, 1,274,923; Montana, 902,195; Nebraska, 1,711,263; Nevada, 1,998,257; New Hampshire, 1,235,786; New Mexico, 1,819,046; North Dakota, 642,200; Rhode Island, 1,048,319; South Dakota, 754,844; Vermont, 608,827, West Virginia, 1,808,344; Wyoming, 493,782.

Also smaller than the prison state are the three smallest US states combined: Wyoming + Vermont + Alaska, 1,729,541.

What would be the social and economic impact of incarcerating all the residents of these three states?

Apologies for the long citation, but what was the point of excerpting just a part?

The address is http://www.drcnet.org/wol/#census .

I have no comment right now; I think it speaks for itself.

thanx,
Tiassa

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