> [...] than two-thirds of the nation’s approximately 780,000 jail inmates. That's a lot of people to be holding for processing one way or another. Some Googli

> [...] than two-thirds of the nation’s approximately 780,000 jail inmates. That's a lot of people to be holding for processing one way or another. Some Googling gave me this informative wikipedia link on the matter if you want to read up on related statistics : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta... .