Too many laws, too many prisoners

[Jack Flash]

Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little - http://www.economist.com/node/16636027

“You’re (probably) a federal criminal,” declares Alex Kozinski, an appeals-court judge, in a provocative essay of that title. Making a false statement to a federal official is an offense. So is lying to someone who then repeats your lie to a federal official. Failing to prevent your employees from breaking regulations you have never heard of can be a crime. A boss got six months in prison because one of his workers accidentally broke a pipe, causing oil to spill into a river. “It didn’t matter that he had no reason to learn about the [Clean Water Act’s] labyrinth of regulations, since he was merely a railroad-construction supervisor,” laments Judge Kozinski.

[mugley]

is there a problem comrade?

[Don't Blink]

We have Russia beat too!

Remember all those stories the media used to run about the number of Russian prisoners? You don't hear much about that anymore.