The USA doesn't jail all its violent criminals

1. because a goodly number of them work for the people in power.

And

2. because the wretched social conditions in American inner cities constantly breed more of the ones who don't, and there just aren't enough jails to keep up with it.

It's a case of supply badly exceeding demand.

This has caused the value of the average, run-of-the-mill violent criminal to sink to possibly its lowest level in recorded history, and it has seriously overloaded the penal system, despite the fact that it's a major growth industry with lots of funding.

Gone are the days when a criminal was worth something in America! People can only look back nostalgically to the glorious times of Jesse James, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Dillinger. It's sad. Something should be done about it.

Perhaps if you were to study the methods of the Nazis more closely, set up an extensive chain of extermination camps with electric chairs, gas chambers, and ovens, and go for a "Final Solution", then America would again become a place where criminals can be proud of themselves, get remembered as folk heroes, and have songs written about themselves, while folks in the suburbs could feel safe. Well, fairly safe...

Someone should write to Bush about this and get it done ASAP, I think...

- LH