"Three out of five people in jail are unconvicted of any crime and are simply too poor to post even low bail to get out while their cases are being processed. N

"Three out of five people in jail are unconvicted of any crime and are simply too poor to post even low bail to get out while their cases are being processed. Nearly 75 percent of both pretrial detainees and sentenced offenders are in jail for nonviolent traffic, property, drug, or public order offenses." https://storage.googleapis.com/vera-web-assets/downloads/Publications/incarcerations-front-door-the-misuse-of-jails-in-america/legacy_downloads/incarcerations-front-door-summary.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/vera-web-assets/downloads/Pub... There's a sort of pedantic distinction between "prison" and "jail" that can make these stats confusing, and occasionally deliberately misleading. If you're in "prison", then by definition you've been convicted. The percentage of nonviolent inmates is very high in both "jail" and "prison", though; the statement "non-violent offenders are a small fraction of those incarcerated" is simply incorrect.