From the Blame America crowd

Oh, rearry?

For the past month, viewers of the Discovery Times Channel were bombarded with promos for a just aired Ted Koppel special  about our prison population.  The tag line was "The United States has a highest prison population than any nation in the world ... blah-blah-blah."  Every time it aired I was compelled to hurl back a sarcasm to the inanimate TV screen. What?  Bigger even than Lichtenstein, or Poland? Gee, Ted, where did you get that stat?  By interviewing Chinese wardens? Actually, I suspect that we do have a bigger prison population than China, but for reasons like this: Chinese Blogger Beaten To Death By Government Officials Said blogger was taking a picture of a protest with his cell phone.  By the way. I agree that we have too many people in prison.  At last 3350, by last count.