The government seems willing to pay anything for prisons, prosecutors, military , & drug agents, but nothing for education , housing, medical care or food. Is the purpose of police, courts & prisons to promote a safer society or to punish sin? The status quo of criminal justice answers that basic question with emphasis on protection of traditional morals through massive punishment of drug users. Denunciation of drugs & to lesser degrees pornography, prostitution, adultery, and homosexuality have dominated national rhetoric. Such crimes against morality far exceed each of the other two categories, crimes of property & crimes against persons, as the dominant cause of incarceration today. This state intervention into private life is moving us closer to a totalitarian government.
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