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Why does this data disagree hugely with that? https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/releasing-drug-offenders-wont-end-mass-incarceration/ https://fivethirtyeigh

• jakelazaroff 8y ago
  It doesn't; it just lumps the federal and state incarceration rates together to draw its conclusion. From the FiveThirtyEight article: > According to the Bureau of Prisons, there are 207,847 people incarcerated in federal prisons. Roughly half (48.6 percent) are in for drug offenses. Additionally, the words "Bureau of Prisons" are actually a link to the same site GW150914 is citing (https://bop.gov/about/statistics/ https://bop.gov/about/statistics/).