Addict Nation (45 page)

14 Probation and Parole in the United States, 2006, U.S. Department of Justice,
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/ppus06.pdf
.

15 Dominick Dunne,
The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper
(New York: Crown, 1999), 192–193. and “Sharon Tate,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate#cite_note-dominickdunne-17
.

16 Joan Didion,
The White Album
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1990), 47.

17 Travis Pratt,
Addicted to Incarceration: Corrections Policy and the Politics of Misinformation in
the United States
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications: 2008), 6, 75.

18 “David Berkowitz,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz# Psychological_profile_and_other_police_investigations
and Corky Siemaszko, “The Summer,”
New York Daily News
,
http://www.nydailynews.com/features/sonofsam/summer.html
.

19 Elizabeth Alexander, “Michigan Breaks the Political Logjam: A New Model for Reducing Prison Populations,” American Civil Liberties Union, November 2009, 3,
http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/2009-12-18-MichiganReport.pdf
.

20 Michael Myser, “The Hard Sell,” CNNMoney.com, March 15, 2007,
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/12/01/8394995/index.htm
.

21 Ibid.

22 James J. Stephan, “State Prison Expenditures 2001,” Bureau of Justice Statistics,
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/spe01.pdf
.

23 Michael Myser, “The Hard Sell,” CNNMoney.com, March 15, 2007,
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/12/01/8394995/index.htm
.

24 Corrections Corporation of America,
http://www.correctionscorp.com/about
.

25 Ibid.

26 “U.S. Prison Labor Output: $2.4 Billion Annually,” Democratic Leadership Council, August 26, 2009,
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=108&subid=900003&contentid=255055
.

27 UNICOR Federal Prison Industries, Inc., Federal Bureau of Prisons,
http://www.bop.gov/inmate_programs/unicor.jsp
.

28 Ibid.

29 Vicky Pelaez, “The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?” GlobalResearch.ca., March 10, 2008,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289
.

30 “Prisoners Allowed to Work Jobs with Access to Social Security Numbers,”
Jacksonville
Observer
, March 18, 2010,
http://www.jaxobserver.com/2010/03/18/prisoners-allowed-to-work-jobs-with-access-to-social-security-numbers
.

31 UNICOR Annual Report, 2008, page 12,
http://www.unicor.gov/information/publications/pdfs/corporate/catar2008_C.pdf

32 Vicky Pelaez, “The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?” GlobalResearch.ca., March 10, 2008,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289
.

33 Kevin Johnson, “Commission Warns of Harm Isolation Can Do to Prisoners,”
USA Today
, June 7, 2006,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-07-solitary-confinement-study_x.htm
.

34 Pete du Pont, “Should Prisoners be Allowed to Work?” National Center for Policy Analysis, November 29, 1995,
http://www.ncpa.org/commentaries/should-prisoners-be-allowed-to-work
.

35 Caroline Winter, “What Do Prisoners Make for Victoria’s Secret?”
Mother Jones
, July/August 2008,
http://motherjones.com/politics/2008/07/what-do-prisoners-make-victorias-secret
.

36 Victor Perlo, “Prison Labor in the U.S.,” [email protected], August 17, 1999,
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45b/157.html
.

37 “Confronting Confinement,” Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, June 8, 2006,
http://www.prisoncommission.org
.

38 Travis Pratt,
Addicted to Incarceration: Corrections Policy and the Politics of Misinformation in
the United States
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008), 93.

39 Christopher J. Mumola, “Incarcerated Parents and Their Children,” U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, August 2000), 2. Cited by Get the Facts/DrugWarFacts.org,
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/64
; and “Children of Incarcerated Children,” Council on Crime and Justice, January 2006,
http://www.racialdisparity.org/files/CCJ%20CIP%20FINAL%20REPORT.pdf
and “Parents in Prison and their Minor Children,” Bureau of Justice Statistics, Laura E. Glaze and Laura M. Maruschak, August 2008,
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/pptmc.pdf
.

40 Patrice Gaines, “The Cost of Incarceration,”
Tri-State Defender
, NNPA News Service, October 8, 2009,
http://tri-statedefenderonline.com/articlelive/articles/4223/1/The-Curse-of-Mandatory-Minimums/Page1.html
.

41 David Von Drehle, “What’s Behind America’s Falling Crime Rate,”
Time
, February 22, 2010,
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1963761,00.html
.

42 Jeremy Hubbard, “Outrage Follows Arrest in Rape of 7-Year-Old New Jersey Girl,” ABC World News, April 4, 2010,
http://Abcnews.go.com/WN/charged-trenton-gang-rape-year/ story?id=10283128
.

Chapter 8: The Breeders

1 “First Two Octuplets Come Home from Hospital, Intensifying Mother Nadya Suleman’s Star Status,” Associated Press, March 18, 2009,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509616,00.html
.

2 Ibid.

3
Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell
, transcript,
CNN.com
, March 18, 2009,
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0903/18/ijvm.01.html
.

4 “Octo-Mom: ‘I Just Kept Going,’” Associated Press/NBC Los Angeles, February 7, 2009,
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Octuplets-Mom-Released-from-Hospital-Babies-Stay.html
; and Dan Childs, Alice Gomstyn, Jim Vojtech, and Chris Fancescani, “Octuplets’ Mom: Can She Afford to Raise 14 Kids?” ABC News, February 2, 2009,
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/story?id=6774471&page=1
.

5 Kimi Yoshino and Jessica Garrison, “Octuplets could be costly for taxpayers,”
Los Angeles
Times
, February 11, 2009,
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/11/local/me-octuplets11
.

6 Ibid.

7 “Octo-Mom: ‘I Just Kept Going,’” Associated Press/NBC Los Angeles, February 7, 2009,
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Octuplets-Mom-Released-from-Hospital-Babies-Stay.html
.

8
Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell
, transcript, CNN.com,March 18, 2009,
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0903/18/ijvm.01.html
.

9 Ibid.

10 “A Century of Change: America, 1900–1999,” U.S. Census Bureau,
https://www.msu.edu/~bsilver/pls440century.html
.

11 Lester R. Brown, Brian Halweil, and Gary Gardner,
Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions
of the Population Challenge
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 17.

12 Ibid.

13 “Octo-Mom: ‘I Just Kept Going,’” Associated Press/NBC Los Angeles, February 7, 2009,
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Octuplets-Mom-Released-from-Hospital-Babies-Stay.html
.

14 Barry Wigmore, “I wanted a huge family to make up for my lonely childhood: Mother of octuplets speaks for the first time,”
Daily Mail
, February 7, 2009,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1137273/I-wanted-huge-family-make-lonely-childhood-Mother-octuplets-speaks-time.html
.

15 Martha Brockenbrough, “Can You Be Addicted to Pregnancy? When Pregnancy Becomes the Focus of Your Life,”
Women’sHealth
, July/August 2009,
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/pregnancy-perks
.

16 United States Population Projections: 2000–2050, U.S. Census Bureau,
http://www.census.gov/population/www/projections/usinterimproj/idbsummeth.html
.

17 Dave Tilford, “Why Consumption Matters,” Sierra Club,
http://www.sierraclub.org/sustainable_consumption/tilford.asp
; and United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report, 1998,
http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr1998
.

18 U.S. Census Bureau, 2006–2008 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates,
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts
.

19 The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency,
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html
; and Total Fertility UNdata,
http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=PopDiv&f=variableID%3A54
.

20 “More Babies Born in 2007 Than Any Other Year in U.S. History,” Associated Press, March 19, 2009,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509672,00.html
; and Sharon Jayson, “Is this the next baby boom?”
USA Today
, July 17, 2008,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-07-16-baby-boomlet_N.htm
.

21 Martha Brockenbrough, “Can You Be Addicted to Pregnancy? When Pregnancy Becomes the Focus of Your Life,”
Women’sHealth
, July/August 2009,
http://www.womenshealth-mag.com/health/pregnancy-perks
; and “More Babies Born in 2007 Than Any Other Year in U.S. History,” Associated Press, March 19, 2009,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509672,00.html
.

22 “Mortality Trends in the USA, Main Category: HIV/AIDS,”
Medical News Today
, February 28, 2004,
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/6219.php
.

23 Haya El Nasser, “U.S. Hispanic population to triple by 2050,”
USA Today
, February, 12, 2008,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-11-population-study_N.htm
and “Humanae Vitae,” Encyclical Letter by Pope John Paul VI, July 25, 1968,
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html
.

24 “FACTSHEET: Hunger, the world’s silent killer,” Reuters, September 15, 2005,
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/112679705053.htm
.

25 Neale Donald Walsch,
Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1),
1st ed. (New York: Putnam Adult, 1996), 49.

26 World Orphans Day,
http://www.worldorphansday.com
.

27 Jason Kovacs, “Orphan Statistics” ABBA Fund, October 16, 2009,
http://abbafund.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/how-many-orphans-are-there-update/
; and Help End Local Poverty,
http://www.helpendlocalpoverty.com/2009/10/orphan-statistics
.

28 Adam Nossiter, “Famine Persist in Niger, but Denial is Past,”
New York Times
, May 3, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/world/africa/04niger.html
.

29 The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency,
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html
.

30 “AIDS epidemic update, 2009.” UNAIDS, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS,
http://data.unaids.org:80/pub/Report/2009/JC1700_Epi_Update_2009_en.pdf
.

31 Donald G. McNeil Jr., “At Front Lines, AIDS War Is Falling Apart,”
New York Times
, May 9, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/africa/10aids.html?pagewanted=print
.

32 Joel E. Cohen,
How Many People Can the Earth Support?
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), 374.

33 Lester R. Brown, Brian Halweil, and Gary Gardner,
Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions
of the Population Challenge
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 131.

34 Marc Santora, “Negligent Upstate Couple Is Told Not to Procreate,”
New York Times
, May 11, 2004,
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/nyregion/11couple.html
.

35 Ann Hoevel, “Overpopulation could be people, planet problem,” CNN, April 8, 2008,
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/25/overpopulation.overview/index.html
.

36 John Robbins, “2,500 Gallons All Wet?” EarthSave,
http://www.earthsave.org/environment/water.htm
; Jeff Nelson, “8,500 Gallons of Water for 1 Pound of Beef,” Vegsource,
http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/water_stockholm.htm
; and “Beef: Environment— Water Concerns,”
New American Dream,
http://www.newdream.org/food/beef_water1.php
.

Chapter 9: The Gluttons

1 Elizabeth Medes, “In The U.S., Obesity Levels Remain High but Stable in 2010,” Gallup. October 8, 2010,
http://www.gallup.com/poll/143483/Obesity-Levels-Remain-High-Stable2010.aspx?utm_source=tagrss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_term=Well-Being%20Index
.

2 Bonnie Erbe, “Are Fat TV Shows Empowering or Exploitative?” CBS News, July 28, 2009,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/29/usnews/whispers/main5196252.shtml
.

3 David K. LI, “Director ‘fed’ Up,”
New York Post
, February 17, 2010,
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/director_fed_up_syAY2YA2MaFsIhxq3Ve0RJ
.

4 Steven Reinberg, “Almost 10 Percent of U.S. Medical Costs Tied to Obesity,” HealthDay Reporter, ABC News, July 28, 2010,
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/story?id=8184975&page=1
.