>>Nice try. but murders are criminal acts everywhere and murders occur in the US far more than any other western countries. There is enough prove that the US has a violent society.

>Good point Walter - I stand corrected. Perhaps the USA has a higher rate of volent crimes, but how many people do we have locked up for many years for victimless crimes? That's one thing that bothers me, they have to let some werdio child-molester out to make room for the guy caught selling 20 bucks worth of drugs.

Well, that indeed might be a difference between the US and other countries. Unless you're a major drug dealer, you'll not be jailed up here. We have a fairly liberal drug policy so beein jailed for growing, possesing or dealing soft-drugs is not that common unless doing it large quantities. This really is a different topic.

For the rest, I don't believe it is much different up here than in the US with a few exceptions:

- The lenght of prisoning, which much longer in the US than up here.
- The three strike, you're out law in CA.

Walter,