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Quote by: improvident Since your good with numbers and all.. think you could check up on the percentage of prisoners who are in there for killing someone.. or trying to kill someone specifically with a gun? im going to guess a rather low number :( |
Why does it have to be for killing someone? There's all sorts of gun crimes, but... what the heck.
NOTE: There are about 160,000 federal prison inmates, compared to the around 1.2 MILLION inmates in state prisons, so federal inmates, a larger percentage of whom are in for drug offenses (around 60%) make up about 10% of the total U.S. prison population.
Percentage of State Prison Inmates -- 2004
Violent Crime -- 52% (I assume that includes any crime committed with a gun)
Murder -- 11%
Property Crime -- 21%
Drug Crimes -- 20% "...the FBI's Crime in the United States estimated that almost 2 million violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault were reported to the police by citizens. About 582,000 of these reported murders, robberies, and aggravated assaults were committed with firearms. Murder was the crime that most frequently involved
firearms; 70% of the 24,526 murders in 1993 were committed with firearms."
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So let's see... of the million violent crimes, about a quarter were committed with a gun. Therefore, of the 41% of State prisoners in for violent crimes,
(subtracting the 11% in specifically for murder) 11% used a gun.
And of the 11% of state prisoners in for murder, 70% used a gun... let's call it 7% of the total for murder, which, added to violent crimes, is around 18% of the State prison population.
18% is not overwhelming, Improv, but neither is it insignificant... approximately equal to the State prison percentages for both drug and property crimes, while around 31% were violent crimes committed without a gun.
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Study Finds 2.6% Increase in U.S. Prison Population "Although many advocates of prison change have blamed drug arrests for the significant growth in the prison population, the report found violent crimes responsible for 64 percent of the increase in the number of men in state prisons from 1995 to 2001. Violent crimes also accounted for 49 percent of the increase in the number of women in state prisons in those years.
In total, 49 percent of inmates in state prisons last year were serving time for violent crimes, the report said. Twenty percent were serving time for drug offenses, 19 percent for property crimes, and 11 percent for public-order offenses, like drunken driving, parole violations and contempt of court.
But in the federal prison system, which with 163,528 inmates is now larger than any state system..." "...48 percent of the growth in the number of prisoners from 1995 to 2001 was accounted for by drug crimes and only 9 percent by violent crimes.
The number of inmates in federal prisons for gun crimes increased by 68 percent from 1995 to 2001, as Congress, President Bill Clinton and President Bush pushed to federalize some illegal gun possession cases."
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