Can someone please help me find examples.....?

Question

of Fascism characteristic number 12 , Obsession with Crime and Punishment, in the US?

Answer 1

1. ALABAMA
"Since Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Law—one of the harshest three-strikes laws in the country—was enacted in 1980, state spending on prisons has jumped a staggering 278 percent. The prison population has grown from less than 6,000 to more than 25,000"
http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=78147

2. TEXAS
a) "Punishment works. Incarceration works. Overall:
● A four-year building boom has raised prison capacity from 49,000 to 150,000.
● The state’s prison population per 100,000 residents has increased from close to the national average to 64 percent above the national average, the highest in the nation.
● The average (mean) time served for all serious crimes, 1.9 years in 1990, climbed to 3 years by 1994.
● Whereas prisoners released in 1990 served 20 percent of their sentences on the average, those released in 1994 served 28 percent on the average."
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st202/
b) "Since the USA resumed judicial killing in 1977, there have been 1,063 executions, of which 384 (36 per cent) have been carried out in Texas. In 2006, Texas carried out 24 executions, five times as many as the next highest state total. Five of the six executions in the USA so far in 2007 have been carried out in Texas. Race, particularly race of murder victim, has consistently been shown to be a factor in US death sentencing."
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR510332007?open&of=ENG-USA