Sentencing Senselessness

The Register's got a good article up on the type of stupid enhancement laws that make absolutely no sense other than to clog up the justice system, yet all the politicians want to prove their tough on crime. My favorite quote:

"It would authorize judges to add five years to sentences of persons convicted of manufacturing or selling illegal drugs within 1,000 feet of religious institutions.

This conjures up an image of drug dealers consulting a map to figure out where to do business . . . Perhaps sophisticated dealers will have to resort to hand-held global-positioning devices . . . But why churches? It seems unlikely those who frequent religious institutions are especially vulnerable to the lure of illegal drugs. . . ."

Or are they?