Prison Statistics - What Do They Mean?

The vast majority of people incarcerated in the united states, particularly in state prisons, account for about nine out of every ten prisoners in the us. Only 14 % are incarcerated primarily for a drug offense. And it's important n you kind of take a step back and just understand what those statistics mean. If if we have a mass incarceration problem, then the solution, by the very logic of how that problem is framed, is to mass is to decarcerate on mass. But i think one of my biggest beefs with the sort of way that the mass decarceration agenda has been set up its that it's been a product of seding this idea that the us systematically denies second