Prison Statistics
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Prison Statistics
• No other country has as many people in prisons and jails.
• One in 100 Adults Behind Bars (Pew Report)
• National prison population tripled from 1987 to 2007
• Currently 2.3 million Americans in prisons and jails
• Cost of prisoner: $25K per year; $65K investment per bed
• About 1 in every 15 persons will serve time in prison during their lifetime.
• Almost 1/3 of African Americans will serve time in prison during their lifetimes; 17% of Hispanic males, 5.9% of white males.
• Men are ten times more likely to go to prison than women.
Source: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#lifetime
Anyone here ever served time or went to jail?
• One in 100 Adults Behind Bars (Pew Report)
• National prison population tripled from 1987 to 2007
• Currently 2.3 million Americans in prisons and jails
• Cost of prisoner: $25K per year; $65K investment per bed
• About 1 in every 15 persons will serve time in prison during their lifetime.
• Almost 1/3 of African Americans will serve time in prison during their lifetimes; 17% of Hispanic males, 5.9% of white males.
• Men are ten times more likely to go to prison than women.
Source: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#lifetime
Anyone here ever served time or went to jail?
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• No other country has as many people in prisons and jails.
USA is #1!
• One in 100 Adults Behind Bars (Pew Report)
• National prison population tripled from 1987 to 2007
• Currently 2.3 million Americans in prisons and jails
• About 1 in every 15 persons will serve time in prison during their lifetime.
Too many laws requiring incarceration for victimless crimes. In a sane world nobody goes to jail for 5 minutes for having a joint. In Singapore if you smuggle drugs the State kills you. In India if you run somebody over while driving drunk, passersby will beat you to death. Here, we lock you up.
• Cost of prisoner: $25K per year; $65K investment per bed
Talk to Joe Arpaio
• Almost 1/3 of African Americans will serve time in prison during their lifetimes; 17% of Hispanic males, 5.9% of white males.
This is a cultural problem that the 'politically correct' political elite are unwilling to address. You can change your culture but not your skin, so let's throw money at the skin colors with the easiest-identified statistical problems
• Men are ten times more likely to go to prison than women.
Men are ten time more full of piss and vinegar than women.
*Anyone here ever served time or went to jail?
If you ever got a ticket, you only avoided jail because of the policeman's discretion.
USA is #1!
• One in 100 Adults Behind Bars (Pew Report)
• National prison population tripled from 1987 to 2007
• Currently 2.3 million Americans in prisons and jails
• About 1 in every 15 persons will serve time in prison during their lifetime.
Too many laws requiring incarceration for victimless crimes. In a sane world nobody goes to jail for 5 minutes for having a joint. In Singapore if you smuggle drugs the State kills you. In India if you run somebody over while driving drunk, passersby will beat you to death. Here, we lock you up.
• Cost of prisoner: $25K per year; $65K investment per bed
Talk to Joe Arpaio
• Almost 1/3 of African Americans will serve time in prison during their lifetimes; 17% of Hispanic males, 5.9% of white males.
This is a cultural problem that the 'politically correct' political elite are unwilling to address. You can change your culture but not your skin, so let's throw money at the skin colors with the easiest-identified statistical problems
• Men are ten times more likely to go to prison than women.
Men are ten time more full of piss and vinegar than women.
*Anyone here ever served time or went to jail?
If you ever got a ticket, you only avoided jail because of the policeman's discretion.
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amen! jail *should* be for lost causes... 9 times out of 10 a prison sentence will not re-habilitate a minority, it will teach them the proper way to steal a car. although here in australia, low security prisons are actually a good thing. you go 5 days a week and work on a prison farm, where inmates are mentored on farm life and general life skills. i think that's a pretty good idea.