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The Over-Criminalization of American Life
Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Over-Criminalization_of_American_Life/59314/0/38/38/Y/M.html
The proliferation of laws and administrative regulations, federal, state and local, that carry criminal penalties has swollen into the tens of thousands.The number of incarcerated Americans exceeds 2.3 million, with the majority being non-violent offenders--often for War on Drugs offenses. regulations are often backed by criminal penalties; rules that govern matters as trivial as the sale of grated cheese, the precise composition of chicken Kiev dishes, and the washing of cars at the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health. State laws add tens of thousands more such crimes. Number of criminally punishable offenses in the United States into the hundreds of thousands.The typical American commits at least three federal felonies a day, simply by going through his or her normal routine.
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