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 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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