“In a nation that incarcerates more people than any other, New York City hopes to jail a hefty proportion of its residents, too. The Daily News reports that the City now boasts more than a million ‘open bench warrants’ for such heinous ‘crimes’ as ‘drinking a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon on a West Village stoop’ and ‘walking a dog without a leash.’ The News lies somewhere to the left of Pravda, but even it marvels that an eighth of New Yorkers could languish in the pokey, which ‘number of outlaws … nearly matches the population of Dallas.'”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/132889.html
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