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Re:In L.A., a new vision of incarceration proves rehabilitat... by gustavus on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:14PM (#38845703)
I mean not to argue against your point, but Federal prisoners are generally not going to have committed violent crimes as those kind of crimes are the purview of the state and lead to state incarceration not federal.
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Re:In L.A., a new vision of incarceration proves rehabilitat... by fwip on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:34PM (#38849616)
Ah, good point! Indeed, when I pull up state-level prison data, it appears that closer to 2/3rds of current prisoners in state prison were convicted of violent felonies.
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