http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/309/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/us_prison_population_largest_world <p>"When everything is illegal, everyone is a criminal." The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world—more even than China or Russia. Prof. Daniel J. D'Amico explains that as of 2010 more than 1.6 million people were serving jail sentences in America. Professor D'Amico suggests that "prisons are not what we think about when we think of America, and they shouldn't have to be." According to D'Amico, a free country should not have 1.6 million people in prison, and a fiscally responsible country cannot afford to. As Prof.</p> <p><a href="http://www.freetalklive.com/content/us_prison_population_largest_world" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/us_prison_population_largest_world#comments federal government Incarceration Police State prison Self-Ownership victimless crime Video Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:14:57 +0000 Crotale 23072 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/weed_wont_kill_you_dea_might <p>California Man’s ‘Drug Holiday’ Becomes Four-Day Nightmare in Holding Cell<br /> But for Mr. Chong, the celebration ended in a Kafkaesque nightmare inside a San Diego Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell, where he said he was forgotten for four days, without food or water.<br /> To survive, Mr. Chong said he drank his own urine, hallucinated and, at one point, considered how to take his own life. By the time agents found him on the fifth day and called paramedics, he said he thought he could be dead within five minutes.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/weed_wont_kill_you_dea_might#comments DEA drug war Incompetence News Article