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School is meant to prepare them for adulthood and the odds that an American will go to prison are relatively high.

• ams6110 13y ago
  Not really.
  • illuminate 13y ago
    The large number of Americans in jail are pretty irrelevant to ~you~ and your friends/family not being in jail.
  • DanBC 13y ago
    > the odds that an American will go to prison are relatively high. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...) That "relatively" is important. (In 2009) US: 743 per 100,000 Russia: 577 per 100,000 China: 120 per 100,000 Canada: 117 per 100,000 Compared to other countries the chances of an American going to prison are higher, even though the chances overall are quite low.
  • BCM43 13y ago
    It is if you are black and male.