Scott Howard wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Rick Welykochy <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Note that the US prison system has been privatised and is run for
> profit. This has resulted in a higher incarceration rate.
>
>
> Actually the number of prisoners has been steadily reducing since 2009.
>
> The incarceration rate is nearly 1 per 100 head of population, definitely
> 1% for the
> adult population. By far the majority of inmates are black.
>
>
> The incarceration rate is around 626 people per 100,000, or much closer to
> half a percent than "definitely 1%". Black prisoners make up roughly 38% of
> all prisoners (ie, far from the "majority"),
> with white prisoners at 35% and Hispanics at 21%. Black and Hispanics do make
> up a disproportionate number of prisoners relative to the general US
> population.
>
> Probably the most telling figure is that 53% of all prisoners are
> incarcerated for violent crimes, and over 12% of all prisons are in for
> murder (not including manslaughter).
>
> (All figures taken from the U.S. Department of Justice 'Prisoners in 2012 -
> Advance Counts", http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p12ac.pdf)
>
I stand corrected, Scott. Thanks for the figures.
My source was some possibly hysterical news reporting on the telly a few years
back.
cheers
rickw
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