At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt

Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by missedthecue on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:47PM (#32622473)

Only 4.5% of US inmates are in prison for drug possession. I do wonder what the rate is for other countries.

Shocking that 55% of inmates are in for violent crimes such as murder, rape, and manslaughter.

source: https://felonvoting.procon.org/incarcerated-felon-population...

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by ok_dad on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:55PM (#32622559)

Source, please, that just seems incorrect.

That would mean for 2mm prisoners there would be 1.1mm murderers, rapists, and manslaughterers. That seems like way too large a number to be realistic with the declining rate of murder, rape, and manslaughter.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by dotancohen on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:05PM (#32622647)

Presumably murder, rape, and manslaughter carry longer sentence terms.

If a rapist spends five times as long in prison compared to a drug offense, then there will be five times as many rapists behind bars if the quantity of the two crime's convictions are comparable.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by ok_dad on Saturday August 27, 2022 @05:38PM (#32623474)

I still don’t see any numbers here, so I will assume the OP comment was bull.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by wizofaus on Saturday August 27, 2022 @08:24PM (#32624570)

There's a link in the post prior to the one you replied to.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by missedthecue on Saturday August 27, 2022 @05:46PM (#32623539)

https://felonvoting.procon.org/incarcerated-felon-population...

I got it wrong. It's actually only 3.7% in for drug possession, not 4.5%.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by selectodude on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:02PM (#32622624)

There are literally hundreds of crimes that are neither drug possession or “murder, rape, and manslaughter.”

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by consp on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:05PM (#32622653)

> https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...

I'll let you figure out your mistake from there.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by rahimnathwani on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:15PM (#32622753)

Those stats are based on a tiny fraction of the US prison population. From elsewhere on that site, that agency is responsible for "158,012 Inmates".

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by consp on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:27PM (#32622850)

Only statistic which I could find on short notice (literally first google result ...) but considering it's federal, I trust a small sample size more than random numbers from someone on the internet without quotation, especially if they are off by an order of magnitude from other countries.

The clue is: It looks like the numbers are reversed which would make a lot more sense.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by kofejnik on Saturday August 27, 2022 @05:08PM (#32623219)

according to [0], out of 1.04M in state prisons it's:

  - 606k violent
  - 142k drug
  - 159k property
  - 124k public order (which includes 42k weapons and 18k DUI)

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by kofejnik on Saturday August 27, 2022 @05:04PM (#32623186)

selection bias: federal crimes are a specific subset, so federal inmates are not a representative sample

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