[291] in libertarians
62% of federal inmates are drug criminals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hhuang@MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 4 09:02:31 1994
From: hhuang@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 94 08:55:53 -0400
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
>From: C-ap@clarinet.com (AP)
>Newsgroups: clari.news.drugs,clari.news.punishment,clari.news.usa.gov.misc
>Distribution: clari.apo
>Subject: Justice Does Inmate Study
>Keywords: Cabinet/State Department/Pentagon
>Copyright: 1994 by The Associated Press, R
>Date: Sun, 2 Oct 94 22:50:10 PDT
>Lines: 23
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> WASHINGTON (AP) -- The largest group of federal inmates is
>serving time for drug crimes, while violent criminals make up the
>biggest share of state prisoners.
> Fifty-eight percent of federal inmates were drug criminals in
>1991; 62 percent are this year, the Justice Department reported
>Sunday in the first joint sin state
>prisons was violent criminals, 47 percent of the total compared
>with 17 percent of the total in federal prisons. The most frequent
>violent crime in both was robbery, accounting for 15 percent of
>state and 11 percent of federal inmates.
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62% of federal inmates are drug criminals? That speaks
volumes about why our current legislative, police, and justice system
needs a serious shift of focus.
-Han
