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Just because I believe the number of reported violent crimes suggests our prison population is underpopulated, doesn't mean I don't also believe the system may currently be overpopulated with the wrong sorts.

That's why I used numbers for sex crimes only, but more broadly we have ~2.2M inmates and 1.2M reported violent crimes per year, throwing out all non violent offenders it would still be hard to conclude our prisons are overfilled unless All cases had a max sentence of 1 year.

>>will_b+(OP)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14914006 and marked it off-topic.

>>will_b+(OP)
> we have ~2.2M inmates and 1.2M reported violent crimes per year

Don't forget that many violent criminals commit more than one crime.

>>will_b+(OP)
You seem to be assuming that each incident of violent crime is done by a different person.