Some countries invest in job training, substance abuse treatment, national healthcare, and literacy programs--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well...than to kill ten thousand."--Olive Schreiner

See: US Has the Most Prisoners in the World, CommonDreams.org, 12.11.06
See: PrisonSucks.com
See: Critical Resistance
See: The Prison Industrial Complex, The Atlantic, 12.98
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