SOCIETY IS SAFER WITH CRIMINALS IN JAIL

The population of the United State's prisons and jails increased by 900
inmates weekly during 2003 and 2004, or from a total of 2 million to 2.1
million prisoners during a one year period, as reported by the federal
Bureau of Prisons on April 24.

The social activists, "enlightened" multiculturalists and civil-rights
extremists who are already whining about the recent increase in our prison
and jail populations should consider this: We are all so much better off
for such judicial cleansing of our population. The Bureau of Prisons also
clearly confirms that America's crime rate has steadily fallen over the
past 10 years as its prison population has risen proportionately. With
increasing numbers of felons receiving prison sentences, it is logical to
assume that the incidence of felonies might fall. Until recent mandatory
sentencing increases started, a high incidence of recidivism relentlessly
stoked higher crime rates.

To those legions of criminals' advocates who continue whimpering and
wailing about incarceration of felons: -- 10 minus 1 equals 9 -- not 11!

The math is there.

Read it, wake up, and get real.

Our republic is safer because of a tightened criminal justice system and
equally tight (and enlarged) prisons.

Richard Bowers

Sarasota