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Us pop: 331,893,745 % Pop w/Felony: 8% Felony pop: 26,551,499 Pardon pop: 6,500 % Felony Pardoned: 0.02% Unfortunately, the 8% of population with a fel
by adolph 4y ago
Us pop: 331,893,745
% Pop w/Felony: 8%
Felony pop: 26,551,499
Pardon pop: 6,500
% Felony Pardoned: 0.02%
Unfortunately, the 8% of population with a felony includes state felonies, not just federal. Wikipedia claims 6,106,327 [0] as the 2016 total felony population but only includes states. 20M federal felony population seems large. In 2020 66,761 federal felonies were adjudicated with a 94.4% conviction rate [1], so annual rate of 62,755. Of those felonies "Drug" was 18,418 with a 92.6 conviction rate, so 17,055. If the total population of pardoned people is 6,500, that is a bit over 1/3 of felony drug convictions in 2020 alone.
Given a conviction growth rate of about 5% over 30 years ending with 62,755, there would be a federal felony population of 936,422. That is barely 1M much less 20M. Something is off about the numbers.
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_the_United_States#Recent_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_t...
1. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/fjs20.pdf https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/fjs20.pdf