On Oct 25, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> one of the other "ads" at the site (called "border security") includes
> the claim that "29% of prison inmates are illegal immigrants." can
> anyone help me with that?
Where's that one come from? According to the BJS <http:// www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim05.pdf>, in mid-2005, there were 1,438,701 inmates in federal and state prisons (excluding local jails), and 91,176, or 6.3%, were noncitizens. And end-2004 <http:// www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p04.pdf>, 19.2% of prison inmates were Hispanic. You can't even get to 29% by adding the numbers together, which only a liar would do anyway.
Doug