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> When you take away that seven percent or so that did something violent Is that accurate?
by serge2k 12y ago
> When you take away that seven percent or so that did something violent
Is that accurate?
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- nostrademons 12y agoWikipedia [1] suggests that it's accurate as a percentage of people who go to prison, but not as a percentage of people who are in prison. The discrepancy is because violent offenders have dramatically longer sentences. If one violent offender gets locked up for 50 years and then 50 consecutive drug offenders get locked up for 1 year each, then the prison population is 50% violent criminals, but the percentage of criminals sentenced to prison is 98% non-violent. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Characteristics_of_offenders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Char...