--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 6/13/06 11:23:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Where do you find stats on the number of illegal immigrants in our jails and > prisons? > > > > > MSNBC >
Hmmm... The latest gao stats I could find said 27% not 33%, but this was from last year's report in may, so MSNBC may have seen this year's report, which apparently hasn't made it to the GAO website: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05337r.pdf An interesting bit of trivia: 5 jails in the USA apparently account for 30% of all the illegal immigrant inmates in jail, and 5 states account for 80% of all the illegal immigrants in prison. The LA, CA; NYC, NY, Orange County, CA; Harris County, TX; Maricopa County, AZ jails had 30% of all illegal immigrant inmates (IIIs). The states with 80% of IIIs in jail or prison were: CA, TX, NY, FL, AZ. This shows that the criminal element of illegal immigrants is concentrated in the border states. I would imagine that the border states are where the majority of illegal aliens live and work as well, so this shouldn't be too unexpected. One thing that pops up in looking at the arrest records of the IIIs is that 99% of the IIIs in Federal prison have a prior arrest record and 96% of the IIIs in state and local prisons/jails have a prior arrest record. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05646r.pdf I don't know how this compares to the rest of the inmates, but it sounds rather high. Another interesting statistic: 45% of all criminal arrests for IIIs were for drug related or immigration related offenses. 90% of all convictions were for drug or immigration related offenses. Still another interesting stat: more than 71% of federal inmates were arrested and 87% of state/local inmates were arrested in CA, TX or AZ. As I said, all these stats are from last year's report, based on the year before's stats. This year's report isn't online that I saw, but probably has roughly the same kind of stats. It seems plausible, even likely, that most illegals in the USA are being arrested for drug and immigrant smuggling, and that when you exclude the smugglers, most IIIs are law- abiding citizens (except for how they entered the country in the first place). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
