[Onelifetogive]

...why is one of every 80 Americans (not counting children and the elderly) locked away from family, friends, career and life...

Do we not lock up criminal children (16-19 year olds) or the elderly (65+)? Or are these groups excluded from the denominator but not the numerator in order to produce a shockingly large number?

[castlebrew]

how many illegal aliens (who are not Americans) are included in that dubious statistic?

Must be counting the under-25 crowd as chirrun, as libs are wont to do when it comes to bogus gun crime stats. Let's see the state-by state rolls before this big lie gets accepted as fact. Should be easy enough to produce.

What's with the "...and life"? Implying lots of folks actually up for (so-called) Life terms...