>> I'll give you a hint, though: most of them aren't rapists, murderers, and child molesters.

> HINT = 15% of the prison population in California are sex offenders.

Rapists and child molesters would both fall under the sex offender category, meaning 85% of prisoners are not convicted of those crimes (according to your post, which lacks citation).

Are you indicating that more than one in three California prisoners are convicted of murder? It sounds like you’re making a case for more than 35% of prisoners as murderes (15 + 35 = 50%). I’m not comfortable with that assumption without links to data.

This definitely doesn't support their point, but the State of California's report[0] turns out to be generally fascinating. More to the point of this thread, sex offenders and murderers make up ~26% of their prison population.

[0] http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/Offender_Information...

EDIT: homicide != murder

Might have something to do with labeling two teens that have sex as rapists.

...So you agree? I'm confused.

I was very unclear in that comment, I apologize.

I was myself confused by the comment I was replying to. I don't like when people say "hint, most people x".

I wanted to get better information about what the actual statistics were, because I didn't know what percent of the prison population were sex offenders, which was 15%.

This is my source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/16/sex-offender...

I'm not sure what my position on this issue is. But it appears that a decent percentage of people in prison in California are serious criminals, and although some are definitely marijuana offenders that should probably be released, I don't think its fair to call that the majority of the people in the prison system.

Which bass-ackwards definition of "most" are you using, friend?