Incarceration in the US

[d-ray657]

Conservatives would say that the liberal environment at the Washington Post is capable of infecting anyone affiliated with it. On the other hand, my respect for Michael Gerson as a somewhat objective observer has grown in the past few months. His recent column about incarceration in the US highlighted rather than avoided troubling facts about the US justice system. It is certainly a more enlightened view of a serious social problem than one might expect from Dub's main speechwriter.

On that topic, I would like to see more reporting on the growing commercial prison industry. The lobbying group for that industry drafted the Arizona detention law for suspected undocumented workers. It has also had a hand in crafting "prison friendly" legislation for other states. Sounds like a dirty business to me.

Regards,

D-Ray