Friday, February 29, 2008

12th House Numbers

Statistics I read in today's news:

IN PRISON
one in 99 American adults
one in 36 Hispanic men
one in 15 Black men
one in nine Black men aged 20-34

one in 355 white women aged 35-39
one in 100 Black women, 35-39

In Germany, 93 in 100,000 adults are in prison.
In America, 750 in 100,000 adults are in prison.

That's a lot of people given that the population of the US is currently 303,939,123. It is, in fact, a big number, the number of people in a small country: 3,070,092.

I don't know what else to say. The numbers stun me to silence.