Land of the Free, Home of the Imprisoned

Connecticut Correctional Officers are concerned that since Governor Rell decreed prisoners arrested for violent crimes need to do their full sentences that prisons in Connecticut are overcrowded. Their solution: hire more guards or build more prisons. I have a 3rd option, how about we arrest less people? I don’t believe that our founding fathers intended that legislators be full time law makers.; sitting around 40 hours per week with nothing better to do than create law after law. They call America the land of the free, but we incarcerate more people than any other country on earth; more than the Soviet Union ever did at the height of their idiocy. The way I figure it, the more laws you have, the more criminals you have, until such time that we are all criminals. Perhaps that’s the idea as corrections is a multi-billion dollar business. And what is clogging up our system? Drug arrests! If you added up all the people in prison nationwide for possession of marijuana you could populate a large metropolitan city; its millions of people. The way I figure it, what someone wants to do with their body is their damn business. If a consenting adult in his or her right mind wants to ingest a wild weed, I kinda don’t see how that’s anyone else’s concern. Isn’t that why our founding fathers came to America, to get away from such rigid tyranny? Where we going to go now? Canada is looking better everyday.