Mexican president Felipe Calderon calls for debate on legalisation of drugs:

Mexican president, Felipe Calderón has said that he supports a debate on the
legalisation of drugs after new figures showed that 28,000 people had been killed in
cartel wars.


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A flawed system? U.S. boasts highest prison incarceration numbers in world. :

With it's harsh drug laws, minimum sentencing guidelines and repeated
imprisonment of non-violent offenders, the country has literally thrown the shackles
on millions of individuals. In fact, the great superpower has more than 2 million of it's
citizens imprisoned at this very moment.

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America's Solitary Confinement Nightmare:

Of course we torture, Ridgeway says. Right here in America. In our own prisons. An
estimated 80,000 Americans are in solitary confinement.


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In Case Missed It:
Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons: Video Documentary:

Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does
such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?


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