[lbo-talk] creative advertising

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On 10/25/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

yeah, it seemed awful dubious to me.

maybe it's in pennsylvania? but that doesn't make any sense, either.