Thread: McDonalds Beating

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 7,225,800 people at yearend 2009 were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole — about 3.1% of adults in the U.S. resident population.[7][4] 2,292,133 were incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails at yearend 2009.[1][3][7][4]

I don't see how you can accommodate numbers like that.

(lol at BJS)

Originally Posted by Spartiate

I don't see how you can accommodate numbers like that.

(lol at BJS)

As stonedape already said, a quarter of those people are there for drugs (I think it's even more than a quarter, way more).
They don't need this treatment. So we can disregard them right away. We're talking about people who are violent towards others.