high numbers of blacks in prison...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 30 09:05:10 PST 2002


JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:


>You confound incarceration rates with violent crime, which accounts for at
>most 10% of sentenced prisoners.

Not according to the BJS:

PERCENT OF SENTENCED STATE INMATES BY TYPE OF CRIME

1990 2000 violent 46% 49% property 25 20 drug 22 21 public order 7 10



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