For Every 100 Girls -- There are This Many Boys:

[brenda]

I've read these kinds of stats before as the case for doing more to help boys in the K-12 system. Has there been a shift toward that? How recent is this list?

[Doctor Phibes]

Regarding the last number on that list....

[Jolly]

Absolutely. Now, walk in the prison and tell me what you see.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in For Every 100 Girls -- There are This Many Boys::

Absolutely. Now, walk in the prison and tell me what you see.

Lots of blokes, lots of minorities.

[LuFins Dad]

Wait, is that “assigned” boys and girls or “identify” as boys and girls?

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in For Every 100 Girls -- There are This Many Boys::

Wait, is that “assigned” boys and girls or “identify” as boys and girls?

@LuFins-Dad , asking the important questions of the 21st century. Thanks for the much-needed perspective.

[Axtremus]

[@Copper]
Men are no good.
[/@Copper]

[Loki]

Sounds like women are poised to excel. Sounds like “female privilege” is on the horizon for woke critical theory.

Love it when a group people don’t define themselves by victim hood.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in For Every 100 Girls -- There are This Many Boys::

Regarding the last number on that list....

Freest country in the world, motherfuckers!

[Doctor Phibes]

The price of freedom for all is that you have to lock a shit-ton of people up.

Maybe it's the people who refuse to wear masks and are like totally American rebels.

[Horace]

It turns out that nurturing cultures of lawlessness has consequences. Now hmmm which political side does all the nurturing...

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in For Every 100 Girls -- There are This Many Boys::

It turns out that nurturing cultures of lawlessness has consequences. Now hmmm which political side does all the nurturing...

It also turns out that if you run a for-profit prison system, you end up with a lot more people in prison.

Now, hmmmm which side supports for-profit prisons?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in For Every 100 Girls -- There are This Many Boys::

The price of freedom for all is that you have to lock a shit-ton of people up.

Maybe it's the people who refuse to wear masks and are like totally American rebels.

Whoever it is, it's definitely someone who isn't familiar with John Carpenter films. Which makes sense, because filums is for fancy-pants city kids with more eliteis' schoolin'.

[Horace]

@Doctor-Phibes said in For Every 100 Girls -- There are This Many Boys::

@Horace said in For Every 100 Girls -- There are This Many Boys::

It turns out that nurturing cultures of lawlessness has consequences. Now hmmm which political side does all the nurturing...

It also turns out that if you run a for-profit prison system, you end up with a lot more people in prison.

Now, hmmmm which side supports for-profit prisons?

I bet you would find consensus against those. I blame lobbyists and the swamp, not the electorate, for that one.

[Doctor Phibes]

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2019/08/30/473966/private-prisons-profiting-trump-administration/

"According to a report by the Sentencing Project8, about 4,841 immigrants were detained in for-profit facilities in 2000. By 2016, that number had soared to 26,249 immigrants—a 442 percent increase.9 In the wake of the DOJ’s decision to phase out the use of for-profit prisons, the Homeland Security Advisory Council reviewed10 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) use of private immigration detention facilities. Immediately after this review was announced, the stock prices of private prison company giants CoreCivic—formerly the Corrections Corporation of America—and the GEO Group Inc. dropped by 9.4 percent and 6 percent, respectively.11 A majority of the council agreed with the view that DHS should begin to move away from using private prison facilities but recommended that while they were still in use, they “should come with improved and expanded [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] oversight.”12

Following the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017, however, the administration immediately shifted course to robustly support private prisons. In February of that year, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked the Obama administration’s initiative,13 and by April 2017, the DOJ began requesting bids for contracts to house federal inmates in private prison facilities14 once again. That same month, the GEO Group won a $110 million15 contract to build the first detention center under the new administration."

The previous swamp appeared to be reducing them.

In the Trump post-swamp swamp environment (the neo-swamp if you will), we're getting more.

[Horace]

Well I am against for profit prisons and have never encountered a single person who is for them. If Trump personally found reason to enhance them then shame on him.

[Doctor Phibes]

The issue appears to be that the justice system just loves locking up lots of Americans. I think that blaming this on lefties is a bit much. There are plenty of lefties in the EU - lots more, and a lot more lefty than in America, in fact.

I know, I know, locking people up is supposed to prevent crime, just as giving everybody lots of guns prevents homicide. The problem is, the statistics don't appear to support this conclusion.

[Copper]

There are a lot more who should be locked up.

We are nowhere near locking up enough bad people who do bad things.

How many Nobel Laureates come out of US prisons?

[Doctor Phibes]

See what I mean?

[Horace]

We have an issue with diminishing returns for imprisoning people. Too many people born assuming they'll likely go to prison eventually, and not caring much. So we need to look elsewhere for solutions.