Posted on 12/09/2018 5:00:02 PM PST by SMGFan
Half of US adults have an immediate family member who has been in jail or prison, a report released Thursday said.
The group FWD.us released the report outlining the results of a wide-ranging survey taken earlier this year, which showed further that one in seven people have an immediate family member who has spent a full year or longer in prison and one in 34 have an immediate family member who has spent 10 years or longer in prison. The report defined immediate family as a parent, child, sibling, current romantic partner or someone else with whom respondent had a child.
The group that released the report is supportive of criminal justice reform efforts around the country and counts billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates among its founders.
Zoë Towns, the group's senior criminal justice reform director, told CNN after the release of the report that she hoped it would be a "wake up call" as some politicians have begun to rethink policies that led the US to becoming the world's biggest jailer.
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Race and income affected results considerably. Black adults were most likely to say they have had an immediate family member to have ever spent a day in jail — at 63% of black respondents compared to 48% of Latino and 42% of white respondents. The same trend held for longer prison times, with 31% of black respondents saying someone had spent more than a year incarcerated compared to 17% of Latinos and 10% of whites.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/06/politics/fwd-report-family-incarceration/index.html
Not the half I associate with.
Do brother-in-laws count?
Children. You forgot the chilren.
So, does this count?
current romantic partner or someone else with whom respondent had a child.
This is BS.
I call bullshit. These numbers are averages. The families that have had six or seven members in jail/prison are making it appear statistically as though three more families have had one member in prison when that’s just not the case.
Well, if anything is a crime ... (see DOJ)
Pardon my social justice ignorance, but if people both violate the law and then get convicted in a court, why should we or their family be upset?
Yes, people who are extremely poor, uneducated, have no nuclear family with an adult male role model are more likely recruited by gangs and much more likely to end up in jail or prison.
So does that mean we should ignore their gang activity? NOPE!!!!
You All will think less of me
If I tell you of my dark Secret,
I won’t.
Or should be?
The problem that I have with this statistic is that these people are likely no longer able to purchase and own firearms.
Firearms are for everyone. If you’re taking their 2nd amendment right away, you’re telling them, me and the whole world that they don’t deserve the rights that our Constitution said they had when they were born.
I know many, MANY people disagree with me on this one. But I hold it at my core that all people, American or not, must defend themselves with the one thing that made mankind soar to the top of the food chain - their minds. And our minds make weapons and some of the finest of those minds made the firearm. You have a natural right to possess them.
And we're considerably over-policed and their performance is based on arrests.
Cross reference that with those on the dole.
And, they, all, are on milk cartons.
I agree with you. A right is a right.
What is needed is justice reform, both in terms of honest sentencing and to not prosecute over stupid stuff.
Most of the people who spent a year in jail would have done so over funds or minor drug convictions.
I think you broke the code Dan. Good work.
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