- I had a link forwarded to me from Jeff Rense's website
about the Chinese prison system. It was an article run over the AFP news
service...
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- (AFP) -- A total of 819,000 Chinese were condemned to
death or jailed for life over the past five years, the country's Supreme
Court president said.
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- The figure represents a 25 percent rise over the previous
five years, Xiao Yang said in his annual report to members of the National
People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing.
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- A total of 3.2 million people were condemned for various
types of crime over the past five years, he said.
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- The Chinese legal system reserves particularly severe
treatment for people found guilty of organizing themselves into "evil
cults" such as the Falungong spiritual movement, or criminal gangs.
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- The same goes for crimes falling into the categories
of drug trafficking, kidnapping of women and children, underground publishing,
separatism, terrorism and subversion of state power.
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- Xiao also said 83,308 officials have been found guilty
of corruption over the past five years, the vast majority of them apparently
small fry.
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- Only 2,662 were officials above the county level, one
of the lowest administrative tiers in China's administrative system, Xiao
said in his report.
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- "These results have testified to the intensified
efforts by the people's courts in dealing with job-related crimes and those
offering bribes to government functionaries," Xiao said.
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- The 2,662 public servants at or above the county level
falling foul of the law represented a 65 percent increase over the previous
five-year period, according to Xiao.
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- Copyright © 2002 AFP. All rights reserved.
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- Sounds pretty harsh doesn't it?
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- 3.2 million sentenced in the last five years, 819000
sentenced to death or life in prison. It's peanuts. Compare it to the
US statistics from the Department of Justice.
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- www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/sent.htm
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- In 1998, State and Federal courts convicted a combined
total of nearly 980,000 adults of felonies -- State courts convicted 927,717
adults and Federal courts convicted 50,494 adults (accounting for 5% of
the national total.)
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- In 1998, 68% of all felons convicted in State courts
were sentenced to a period of confinement - 44% to State prisons and 24%
to local jails. Jail sentences are for short-term confinement (usually
for a year or less) in a county or city facility, while prison sentences
are for long-term confinement (usually for over a year) in a State facility.
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- And that's just in one year. Arrests and convictions
have been going up since 1998. Multiply 980000 x 5 = 4.9 million. By
comparison, China sentenced 65% of the number of people the USA did during
the same period, and China's population is four times the size.
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- Proportionately, during the same period, if the US had
the same population as China, America would have locked up 19.6 MILLION
PEOPLE based on its current arrest statistics.
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- Also note that China has put 83,000 corrupt public servants
in prison. Now THERE'S an idea. How many corrupt civil servants has America
jailed in the last five years?
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- Anyone want to bet it's not 83,000?
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- Even worse, according to the DoJ Special Report Lifetime
- Likelihood of Going to State or Federal Prison, Among
men,
- blacks (28.5%) are about twice as likely as Hispanics
(16.0%)
- and 6 times more likely than whites (4.4%) to be admitted
to
- prison during their life.
- www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/llgsfp.txt
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- If you're black, your chances of landing in an American
prison are better than 1 in 4. You chances of going to prison as a white
male are about 1 in 20. And this is in a nation whose population is only
17% black, and where 70% of arrests are of white people.
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- But this has nothing to do with the fact that the poverty
rate for non-hispanic whites is 7.8% compared to 22.7% poverty rate for
blacks and 21.4% for Hispanics.
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- www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/poverty01/povrac01cht.gif
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- Hello boys and girls, today we have TWO words as our
word of the day --
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- Can you say, 'CONCENTRATION CAMP?'
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- For tomorrow, our words are, 'SELECTIVE SENTENCING'
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- America is building prisons faster than hospitals and
schools combined. Prisons are the fastest growing industry in America,
where the government makes sure the middle class doesn't have to see all
those pesky poor people. Instead, they lock them up, use them to make
jobs for the voting middle class, and use them as slave labor at privatized
prison corporations like CCA and Wackenhut.
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- Walls are going up all around you. Walls of shame, and
walls of pain. The problem is, one doesn't see them until one is on the
wrong side of the wall, for stealing a submarine sandwich out of hunger
and desperation.
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- You think China's prison system is bad, and that China's
an oppressive regime?
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- Then what does that make the United States of America?
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- For more info see <http://www.rense.com/general33/funct.htm>www.rense.com/general33/funct.htm
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- Peace
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