CDC Facts

note that the cost to house my daughter's murderer for one year is more than i earned last year - or will earn this year.
it makes me sick, is all. no biggie. let it run off our backs now and get on with life. no, wait...we'll do that momentarily

"CHARACTERISTICS: Race: 29.2% white; 30.0% black; 35.4% hispanic; 5.4% other

that this is even reported verifies the institutionalization of racism in our society. i do not recognize these "races"; these days i subscribe solely to the human race. if anything i might concede that there are 2 races, male and female. but even there i tend to believe we are ALL just human beans, more alike than we are different. this counting of color and eye shape should have stopped generations ago, and it really ought to be over with NOW.

Offense: 47.7% persons; 21.2% property;2306% drugs; 7.5% other

so i take it bekah's death is "persons"? what? murders, strong-arm robbery, simple assault, etc., do they all get banded together with "persons"? and how about those drugs eh?! gee. seems if "drugs" were made legal [like, for instance, "booze" and "cigarettes"], they'd have to stop sprouting prisons all along the countryside.

but:
Since the early 1980s, Corrections has been involved in the largest prison building program in the United States. The Department of Corrections' Master Plan predicts that the growing inmate population will exceed maximum operating prison capacity of 177,197 in April, 2004.
Cost: $5.27 billion Total Beds Completed: 113,904

prison is a growth industry...who is getting rich from the prison industry? i've heard the former governor pete wilson, but do not KNOW that to be true....i believe it, but i could be wrong.

these statistics make me sick. why then did i go there? it was to find out where bekah's murderer is as of today. her deposition is scheduled for 11-13-02 and if it is in Stockton i may not be able to attend. and i really want to go. but all i got from the CDC's webpage was statistics.

anyway. Halloween was more good than bad so don't think this blip is systemic. :)
- posted by barbara @ 11/01/2002 05:45:00 AM