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Re:Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts by lesuorac on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:10PM (#35923129)
Prison is where criminals go. Jail is where people not convicted of a crime go.

Drug Offenses are nearly half the prison population [1]. So the prison population can decrease by significant amounts without releasing any violent criminals.

[1]: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...

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Re:Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts by kooshball on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:25PM (#35923284)
> Drug Offenses are nearly half the prison population

this is not true. your data is federal only. most prisoners are at state prisons. drug offense is about 1/5 of total.

source https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html

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Re:Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts by dotancohen on Saturday May 13, 2023 @04:44AM (#35926710)
A reduction of 20% is most certainly significant.
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Re:Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts by shjake on Saturday May 13, 2023 @09:39AM (#35928255)
What proportion of them are in prison for possession of small/personal amounts?

And is imprisoning people who are smuggling/distributing hard and potentially very dangerous drugs really that controversial?

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Re:Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts by dotancohen on Saturday May 13, 2023 @12:19PM (#35929845)
I have no idea, I don't live there. I'm responding to the assertion that 1/5 is not significant.
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Re:Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts by kooshball on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:44PM (#36014943)
no one asserted 1/5 is not significant. you misread this.

i was just stating the fact that the initial number posted was wrong/incomplete.

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