WASHINGTON: The US prison population, already the largest in the world, reached a new high of more than 2.1 million last year, with one in every 138 residents of the country now behind bars, according to new government statistics.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1088308.cms

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Wiretaps in U.S. Jump 19 Percent in 2004

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4969731,00.html
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"There are doubts about these claims, and no evidence has been found that such a plot was in the works," one Bush Administration official admitted to the Times. "The arrests took place after authorities decided it would be better to lock up the girls than wait and see if they decided to become terrorists," another told the New York Post. The same logic could be used to justify locking up any Muslim, or anyone at all. Heck, maybe that's the idea.

http://www.uexpress.com/printable/print.html?uc_full_date=20050426&uc_comic=ru
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Wow. thats a pretty big slave labor force they got there. 2.1 million...