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I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.

The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.