The builder, Edward Palmer, of the first public stocks would be the first one to put it the test. The village honchos, that commissioned the building of the stockade, felt that the fee he charged was too exorbitant and stuck his ass in his own creation.
On December 31, 2005, there were 2,193,798 people in U.S. prisons and jails. The United States incarcerates a greater share of its population, 737 per 100,000 residents, than any other country on the planet.
There is parable in there somewhere.
