[Vision]

2/3 of them are Americans. How about deporting the 1/3 and put more Americans behind bars to fill the void? Then maybe I’d be able to visit downtown Baltimore without seeing a stabbing, mugging, or carjacking.

[BohDaThone]

The widely cited figure of 1/3 foreigners in our jails is for FEDERAL prisons, which hold only about 10% of all prisoners (and, of course, concentrate on smuggling, immigration and other offenses whre foreigners would be overrepresented). A DOJ reports says only about 10% of the total number of prisoners in the US are foreigners. Check the site for “Bureau of Justice Statistics.”