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Originally Posted by broke
So that "lock up rate" would be roughly 0,7% of the population?
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Mmmm.. not exactly! :-)
There are a couple of variables... one being that this is only for one year. If you want to get an estimate of adult convictions or rap sheets during a lifetime or as the DOJ expresses it "adults with prison experience", this is going to be a lot more.
Simplified version... one year is .7% - ten years is 7% and, say the average "crime active" years of a human is 30 years, - that brings it up to 21%. But... there are also plenty repeat offenders and "overlapping years", so it's going to be less than 21%.
But it's still a high figure in relation to other industrialised countries - even Canada is dramatically less at around - can't remember the exact figure, but around 117 per 100,000 per annum in relation to just above 700 per 100,000 in the US population.