An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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(IPI). 95% of today’s prison population will return to our communities. We must find ways to help them enter the work force.
IPI is spot on. We have one of the highest porportionate and absolute incarceration rates among the economically developed nations. It's not because Americans are more "evil" but because we have a prison industrial complex, a perversion in an allegedly "land of the free". No one is arguing about protection of lives and property; but we have an increasingly burdensome, arbitrary legal system which traps victimless criminals and which makes it all but impossible for former prisoners to get a fresh start. For the law and order populists, freedom is not an unalienable right but an inconvenience to authoritarian rule.
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Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists
John Denver, "Rocky Mountain High". I'm not sure which hit constitutes Denver's signature tune, but along with "Take Me Home, Country Roads", this has to be a candidate. I had obviously known about the latter, but one hit doesn't make the artist in my book. I would say that this hit grabbed my attention to him as an artist; it was unlike anything I had ever heard, sort of fusion country-folk, with verses you could yodel to (like "Calypso").
