On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:37:56PM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:29, Chris Benson wrote; > > CB> I thought it already was ... <thinks: prison statistics/> > > I thought that the US prison statistics were because of the War on > Drugs.
Perhaps I mean sentencing statistics: - if you're poor you're X% more likely to be imprisoned for a particular offence, - if you're black you're Y% more likely to be imprisoned for a particular offence, I can't remember X and Y, but ISTR that X*Y is 10x more likely. -- Chris Benson
