Imprisoned – a tale of two countries
United States, meet the Netherlands. Netherlands, meet the United States.
In the US — which imprisons a far greater proportion of their citizens than any other place on earth — prosecutors are celebrating today. Today is their first victory in their war on comic collecting. Comic collectors are clearly deviant; a danger to society.
But with prisons bursting, where to put them?
Enter the Netherlands, where progressive policies have sent the crime wave plummeting. The Dutch find themselves with a plethora of empty prison cells. They are trying to decide whether to close prisons and lay off workers, or import Belgian criminals for their prisons.
Difficult, to be sure. It’s a lose-lose proposition. Either you harm your economy by laying people off in the midst of a recession, or you import potentially dangerous criminals into your country.
The Netherlands, meet the United States.
The Big Bad Blog’s proposition is this: All Americans convicted of comic collecting be sent to prisons that have been outsourced to the Netherlands. Everyone wins!
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