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Originally posted by Purrybonker
...Seems non-sequiturial that such a large percentage of the population...
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WOW!!!! 2 million out of well over 200 million....doesn't even equate to 1 full percentage point, and THAT'S a "large" percent???? 2 Million in Canada may be a lot, but not here.
The real key to this is to look at what those 2 million are in jail for. Granted, there are undoubtedly even some that are there that shouldn't be...can't/won't dispute that.
Those are the people this article should really hi-light. But then, EVERYBODY serving time has been convicted by a jury of their peers (except for maybe that Padilla guy-the suspected Dirty Bomber).
I'm not going off of any statistics here, but my guess would be that in the States we actually have the LOWEST percentage of people behind bars that have been wrongly convicted.
Randy