Show USELESS LA LAWS LAW'S S 'S CAUSE LA LAW DISRESPECT A recent statement brings out the fact that it will cost twice as much to maintain California prisons for tor the next two y years ars as it did lid for the thc past two years All over the nation state governments govern govern- ments as ments-as as well as the federal federal are are perplexed by the growing cost of prisons prisons prisons pris pris- ons which is of course the obvious I result of the increasing number of prisoners Many t penitentiaries are crowded to the point where officials are aie desperately seeking to find a place to put the steady flow of new inmates The upshot of the matter will be that the public ImbUe will be taxed to build more institutions as has already been done in iu various arious localities Man Many causes have ilave been blamed for increasing crime but authorities have hae stated that the American crime problem problem problem lem will never neer be solved soled until our legal system is revised unnecessary re re- laws weeded out anu and we may mu of return to more strict enforcement basic laws There are thousands of persons in prison toda today because of acts which in themselves are not crimes but which anew a n anew new law makes a crime The mania mania mania ma ma- nia for making lawmaking in this country countr has hus been the thc greatest wholesale man- man of criminals and the principal principal pal cause for disrespect for law More laws laness to restrict individual rights and liberties will mean more law breaking |