[lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...)

[John Thornton]

J. wrote:
> John Thornton wrote:
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>> Certainly the wrongly convicted constitute an immeasurably small 
>> percentage.
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> No.  Anywhere from 2 to 10% in the US, which is small, but hardly
> insignificant, let alone immeasurably small.  
Is it 2% or 10%.
That's a awfully wide variance.
What evidence do you have that it is anywhere near 10%?
Have you actually met the people who go before a judge with a public 
defender to plea bargain a case?
If .5% were not guilty of what they are charged with I'd be shocked.

John Thornton