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Where are you getting the 0.76% figure? The article mentions 6.7 million, which is about 2% of the US population. Still perhaps a lower percentage than during
by skewart 9y ago
Where are you getting the 0.76% figure? The article mentions 6.7 million, which is about 2% of the US population. Still perhaps a lower percentage than during the height of the gulag days, but not that much lower.
- vacri 9y ago0.76% is about the number that's currently incarcerated, with the rest on parole. It works out to be about 1 in 100 adults in the US that are currently incarcerated (even the US balks at the idea of locking up children)