Never heard of it, but sounds dangerous helping out rapists and murderers and such.
https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
Only a little over 1/3rd are actually in prison for violent crime.
My understanding is that while the rate of prisoners with drug charges is high, the rate of prisoners with only drug charges is a lot lower.
On that chart, I was a little bit surprised to see the percentages for:
- category (g) (Homicide, Aggravated Assault, and Kidnapping Offenses) and
- category (l) (Sex Offenses)
Here's a breakdown by most serious offense for my state's prison system:
https://www.doc.sc.gov/research/InmatePopulationStats/ASOF-M...
Which has 16% drugs, but also:
26% homicide, 12% Robbery, 11% Burglary, 9.5% Rape/Sexual assault, 6.6% Kidnapping, 6.4% Assault.
I wrote an blog post a while back about how prison populations skew so much towards the most violent crimes.
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That's not how the "criminal justice system" works. Not in the US and not in most of the rest of the world, especially the "first world"/"Western world".
Prisoners are NOT release only once they are deemed no longer dangerous. They are release once their allotted prison time is over. They can still be dangerous and released, and they can be not dangerous at all from they one and still go to prison.
Also: Choosing to like someone and dislike someone else, choosing whom you assist when not obligated by law and whom you don't, choosing who gets your time and who doesn't - all of this is not part of the punishment people are sentenced to by the state court system and thus it is not "over" in any sense or way once they are release from prison. You, I, and Mr. sowwww are free to volunteer our time, money and efforts towards whom and what we'd like and we're under no obligation to assist people we don't like just because "they have served their sentence and their punishment is over".