ebrown_p wrote:I think that the US Department of Justice is a pretty believable source for data on incarceration rates. That lots of sites with a particular political view parrot the same erroneous statistics isn't that impressive.
I think the US Department of Justice site is definative... unless you can show me another authoritative non-partisan source that can match this.
The 10.1% number is the number of "non-citizens" of which a percentage will be legal immigrants. This means that the percentage of prisoners in California who are illegal immigrants will be part of (i.e. lower than) 10.1%.
Whether this number is high or not is a subjective number.
The fact is that the 30-40% number that conservatives are throwing around to back up their claims is clearly false.
Okay, I'm pretty dense. Point out the page or location in US Department of Justice Site that indicates a 10.1% illegal prison population in California.
And before you look, let me explain what I said in my previous post. I'll type more slowly this time.
If you have 40% illegal prison population in California
And 30% illegal prison population in New Mexico
And maybe 15% illegal prison population in Texas
And 18% illegal prison population in Arizona,
And lower percentages in other states,
You can still have 10.1% illegal prison population in the USA nationwide.
I have NOT said 30% illegal prison population nationwide.
And while you're at it, show me any credible source to show that those California numbers cited were wrong.
And if that 3% of the USA population figure is illegal is accurate, then a 10.1% illegal prison population nationwide is a huge number.