5.6 Million in U.S. Have Prison Experience

[DeathvadeR]

About one in every 37 U.S. adults was either imprisoned at the end of 2001 or had been incarcerated at one time, the government reported Sunday.

The 5.6 million people with "prison experience" represented about 2.7 percent of the adult population of 210 million as of Dec. 31, 2001, the report found. The study by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics looks at people who served a sentence for a crime in state or federal prison, not those temporarily held in jail.

About 11.3 percent of men and 1.8 percent of women born in 2001 will go to prison during their lifetimes. For black males, that translates into a one in three chance of doing time, compared with one in six for Hispanic males and one in 17 for white males, according to the projections.


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Land of the Free? Who ever told you that is your enemy!

[teryang]

1. Extraordinary numbers!

Expecially when you consider that the huge number of people who do short stints in jail, or who are on probation or house arrest.

[izzie]

2. Has any study been done on prison s for profits?

Who goes in, their profits, who owns them and what state they are in?

[catmandu57]

3. If people went to prison for actual crimes

and not someones else social morals then that number would drop.
If we would concentrate on true crime, admit that the drug war is a phony failure and quit throwing money down that rat hole. If....