Build them and they will come...

When asked to comment on reports that 2.1 million Americans, including 1 in every 75 men, are in prison, Attorney General John Ashcroft said "You ain't seen nothin yet! Four more years!" Ashcroft responded to questions about the 14:1 ratio of men to women in American prisons by admitting there is a problem... "The Clinton administration left a huge deficit in female prisoners. This administration is working hard to overcome that handicap... in fact we have increased the number of women in prison by 5% in each of the last few years." Ashcroft denied that reports of lower crime rates are due to changes in reporting standards and data collection techniques rather an actual decrease in crime and instead insisted "See, the logic is simple, as we put more people in jail there are fewer people on the street, thus there are fewer potential criminals. We are in an age of proactive law enforcement. We can't afford to wait for people to commit crimes, we have to take them into custody NOW!"