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solarhydrocan

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6. + at least 1500

Reply to woo me with science (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 6, 2013, 03:31 PM

Nov 2013

But what made CCA's pitch to those governors so audacious and shocking was that it included a so-called occupancy requirement, a clause demanding the state keep those newly privatized prisons at least 90 percent full at all times, regardless of whether crime was rising or falling.

In a sane world that would be a crime

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Evidence of pot smoking weeks earlier enough for DUI charge, Arizona prosecutor says [View all] Newsjock Nov 2013 OP

reason number 1 not to sign up for a card. Then they know who you are and can librechik Nov 2013 #1

+1 eom Purveyor Nov 2013 #7

Boycott Arizona = one more reason. On this basis, almost everyone is driving drunk at all times. Coyotl Nov 2013 #2

"States with highest (private prison) occupancy requirements include Arizona..." woo me with science Nov 2013 #3

+ at least 1500 solarhydrocan Nov 2013 #6

*Absolutely* it should be a crime. It is criminal. woo me with science Nov 2013 #9

Then the same should go for pharmaceuticals. What an idiot. kysrsoze Nov 2013 #4

Something about that prosecutor's name seems fitting. Eleanors38 Nov 2013 #5

and then she went home and drank herself into a stupor frylock Nov 2013 #8

They need to imprison more and more of us. woo me with science Nov 2013 #10

Yeah, this will probably be another tack for the drug war holdouts. Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #11

"He smoked pot in the 70's, throw the book at him!" ck4829 Nov 2013 #12

States like Washington that criminalize metabolite levels are just shifting the persecution Jesus Malverde Nov 2013 #13