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 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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