HM Prison – A Survival Guide (2015)

Re:HM Prison – A Survival Guide (2015) by alsetmusic on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:51PM (#15411057)

>> 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.

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Re:HM Prison – A Survival Guide (2015) by fisherjeff on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:57PM (#15411111)

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

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