the
* house. Let's get a search warrant.
* USA Today, undated: "LOITERING LAW": a new Dallas city ordinance allows
* police TO ARREST AND SEARCH PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE DRUG DEALERS.
We've come a long way from 'presumed innocent'.
Now: presumed potentially guilty.
* "Riot May Push Md. to Expedite Prison Building", The Washington Post
*
* An inmate riot last week at one of Maryland's most crowded and violent
* prisons will help force the state to consider a more rapid pace of
* prison construction, key state legislators said.
This level of monitoring has given us a world record % of prison population.
So much for 'The Land of the Free'.
* As a result, over 100 inmates were transferred to the state's "super-
* maximum" prison. Signs of looming trouble became evident weeks ago.
Signs of looming trouble have been ignored for years.
# "Notes and Comment", The New Yorker, April 13, 1992
#
# Traditionally, vast prison systems have adorned tyrannies.
#
# However, due to mandatory minimum sentencing and the profitable War on
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