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anonkitty2 t1_jecxwzd wrote

Reply to comment by DevinCauley-Towns in [OC] The United States Prison Crisis by cbarrettg

State prisons and federal prisons are two different types of prison. The state-level data only has state-level prisons. Federal prisons are in national data alone.

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DevinCauley-Towns t1_jecz4o6 wrote

Right, but no where on this infographic does it mention the federal inmates are ignored from the state statistics. The state graphic simply says “inmates”, it doesn’t specify that it is only a subset of inmates physically housed within each state. You can easily look up the number of federal inmates located within each state or even facility, so it isn’t impossible to find the information. OP didn’t even seem to realize the datasets were that different, so that’s likely why it wasn’t called out in the graphic (and also why it should’ve been, since it’s not clear at all).

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