Touchie Feelie BS

If you forgot what democrats being in charge meant, here's a reminder:

• More prisons are not the answer to America’s crime problems, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the nation’s lawyers Monday.

  “We will not focus exclusively on incarceration as the most effective means of protecting public safety,” Holder told the American Bar Association delegates meeting here for their annual convention. “Since 2003, spending on incarceration has continued to rise, but crime rates have flattened.”

  Holder conceded that the massive build-up of prisons — a seven-fold increase over the past 40 years — probably has something to do with the crime rate dropping 40 percent since 1991.

No shit, Sherlock. So how about maintaining or increasing the rate of incarceration until such time as the crime rate stops flattening and starts plunging. "Diminishing returns" our asses.