US Army Standards

[sirs]

<<Apparently in Xo's & Tee's alternate version of reality, our population remained constant, & never grew at all >>

Well, it seems like the jailbird demographic demonstrated some healthy growth, that's for sure.

That's 1 unsubstantiated opinion

[The_Professor]

see this chart for any needed clarification from http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/guideorateur/sec7_e.shtml. Also, from the article: "Canada's incarceration rate is higher than the rates in most Western European countries but much lower than the United States."

Also: "The average annual cost of incarcerating an inmate in a federal institution: $81,206

Men: $79,555
Women: $169,399*"

And this from http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0818/p02s01-usju.html

"More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there, according to a new report by the Justice Department released Sunday. That's 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration level in the world.

The numbers come after many years of get-tough policies - and years when violent-crime rates have generally fallen..."

[Michael Tee]

I don't recall seeing those figures, Professor, but I do recall reading somewhere that it costs less to send a man to Harvard for a year than to incarcerate him for that same year in a federal penitentiary.

[Plane]

The Military recruiters are more selective than the prison wardons.

High School dropouts need a waiver or a GED to join todays Armed Forces.

Prison has very loose age requiremets.

No one in the military is unemployed.

I joined the Navy in 78 , the requirements since then have tightened up a lot.

The incarcerated demographic and the Military demographic do not directly relate.

[Xavier_Onassis]

You have missed the point.

The US federal and state governments are extremely eager to sentence people to jail for rather minor crimes-certainly more so than the governments of  most other countries.

The same US government is very lax in sentencing murderous soldiers, marines and mercenaries to prison for killing Iraqis.

[Plane]

You have missed the point.

The US federal and state governments are extremely eager to sentence people to jail for rather minor crimes-certainly more so than the governments of  most other countries.

The same US government is very lax in sentencing murderous soldiers, marines and mercenaries to prison for killing Iraqis.

You're wrong , you may simply think so because you think many more such incdents occur than do.