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!!!!
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.
Cross reference that with those on the dole.
And, they, all, are on milk cartons.
At first I could not think of anyone in my large family but then remembered my Grandfather was sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter.
He was totally innocent. Killed a man who had fired five shots at him. The governor gave him a full pardon after a year.
Granddaddy said he was well treated in Raiford. He started a Sunday School class in prison.
We all have led,and currently lead,very,*very* boring lives.
According to Pew, 33% of prison inmates are Black, 30% White and 23% Hispanic.
I don't think it's possible that "Half of US adults have an immediate family member who has been in jail or prison". I have a nephew (adopted) who is either in jail or on parole at the moment (drugs, of course) but he doesn't qualify as "a parent, child, sibling, current romantic partner or someone else with whom respondent had a child." So, no.
If it's a survey of people with no caller ID and nothing better to do than answer telephone surveys, could be. But otherwise I think it's Fake News.
Yep, 2 brothers and a sister in the joint, and dad only got out 4 years ago, and grandpa 15 years ago (good behavior). Not sure with great grandparents, but I heard a few died in jail.
Yep, time for ‘Criminal Justice Reform’. I’m with the left on this.
Just kidding...had my own close calls, but no one that I’m close to ever served. This is just bullshit to sell us on emptying jails.
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.
No one in immediate or extended family.
Best I can do is one friend and my brothers wife’s nephew.
Other than that I don’t even know anyone who has been jailed.
Democrats