Originally Posted by chassisman

Here is some food for thought, Iaca. The reason for having so many jailed citizens may be that they start off with freedoms that many other countries don't offer their citizens. For instance, I am legally entitled to carry a concealed handgun, and do just fine with it. However, there are many that will abuse that right and end up in the slammer over it.
To simply make a "hypocricy" summary is an empty statement. Those who are incarcerate are there for good reasons, none of which are because we gave them too much or too little freedom.